Is it scientifically possible to bring back to life an animal from extinction? Which animal would you bring back and why?

Yes, it is now possible to bring back extinct species by cloning dead specimens through the advanced DNA technology. However, to get an appropriate and exact result it must be growing in the wombs of similar or related animals otherwise the results will be different or abnormal. This idea of resurrecting extinct animals moved a step ahead in DNA technology of modern science.

SCNT or "somatic cell nuclear transfer" cloning process is unique (as it is like "test tube" babies in that the fertilization of the egg takes place in a lab) to create animals that are genetically identical. In SCNT process, genetic material (namely the nucleus of a cell) from the animal that is being copied is transferred into an egg of a female mammal. The egg is not fertilized in the normal way, in that no spermatozoa enter the egg.

However, the egg begins to divide as if it had been fertilized, and reproduces the DNA of the copied animal. The egg is then implanted into the womb of a surrogate mother and grows into a fetus and eventually an identical baby copy of the original animal. WHICH ANIMAL WOULD YOU BRING BACK AND WHY?

We know the first cloned mammal (there may have been an earlier successful cloning of a fish and a tadpole in China) was Dolly the Sheep. The scientific team that produced the Dolly, first cloned sheep, reported that it took 277 eggs to produce 29 sheep embryos; of these only three survived until birth, and only one of these three - Dolly - lived for any length of time after birth. One point should be considered that it must have been growing in the wombs of similar or related animals (we may consider for the woolly mammoth).

But scientist magazine has named the 10 other beasts most likely to rise again, including the “Irish elk deer�. "Our choice is based not just on feasibility, but also on each animal's 'megafaunal charisma' – just how exciting the prospect of resurrecting these animals is. "Of course, bringing extinct creatures back to life raises a whole host of practical problems, such as where they will live, but let's not spoil the fun..." 1.

Neanderthal: Extinct: 25,000 years ago. A draft sequence of the Neanderthal genome should be published sometime this year by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. Humans would make the ideal surrogates.2.

Sabre-toothed tiger: Extinct: 10,000 years ago There are some spectacularly preserved sabre-toothed specimens from the La Brea tar pits in Los Angeles, and lions are close enough to be surrogates. 3. Short-faced bear: Extinct: 11,000 years ago This towering beast would dwarf the world's largest living land carnivore, the polar bear, stanidng a third taller when standing upright, and it weighed up to a tonne.

Recovering its DNA should be possible as there are specimens encased in permafrost. 4. Tasmanian tiger: Extinct: 1936 The last Tasmanian tiger died in Hobart Zoo in 1936 which means there are well preserved tissues to obtain good-quality DNA.

The tasmanian devil would make good surrogate. 5. Glyptodon: Extinct: 11,000 years ago The Volkswagen Beetle-sized "colossal" armadillo, with its spiky, club-like tail, once rumbled across the South American countryside, and some might fancy seeing it do so again.6.

Dodo: Extinct: AD1690 In 2002 geneticists at Oxford University got permission to cut into the world's best-preserved dodo specimen, a foot bone – complete with skin and feathers – held under lock and key at the university's Museum of Natural 7. Woolly rhinoceros: Extinct: 10,000 years ago As with the mammoth, there are plenty of specimens preserved in permafrost, and the availability of hair, horns and hooves is a big plus. These tissues can be cleaned up to release an abundance of near-pure rhino DNA.8.

Giant ground sloth: Extinct: 8,000 years ago This giant stood around six metres tall and is estimated to have weighed a whopping four tonnes. The sloth's relatively recent extinction means several specimens have been found with hair, an excellent source of DNA.9. Irish elk: Extinct: 7,700 years ago A typical male stood more than two metres tall at the shoulder and sported antlers 12 feet wide.It is actually a deer rather than an elk and its closest living relative is the much smaller fallow deer.10.

Moa: Extinct: AD 1500. There is plenty of DNA to be found for this flightless bird, which is similar to an ostrich, in well-preserved bones and even eggs in caves across New Zealand.Www.newscientist.Com http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/4161743/Extinct-animals-could-be-brought-back-to-life-thanks-to-advances-in-DNA-technology.html -/quote- Some extinct giant beasts that could walk the earth again, although, there are much speculation about whether we could bring this or not. But we may consider for the following: 1.

Woolly mammoth carcass 2. Siberian permafrost triggers (flurry ice age giant tigers). For more info: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126905.000-ten-extinct-beasts-that-could-walk-the-earth-again.Html When we bring back any life into the world, we are also carrying a responsibility of it and the wellbeing of its surrounding.

If you think you are unable to carry all the responsibility, you should give up the idea for the betterment of the existing environment.Www.cosmosmagazine.Com/node/903 hubpages. Com/.../Bringing-Extinct-Animals-back-To-Life-Using-Cloning www.telegraph.co.uk/.../Extinct-animals-could-be-brought-back-to-life-thanks-to-advances-in-DNA-technology.html www.extinctanimal.com/cloning.htm www.newscientist.com/.../mg20126905.000-ten-extinct-beasts-that-could-walk-the-earth-again.Html http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/05/cloned-species/mueller-text wide. It0 www.newscientist.

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In theory, any animal or plant for which we have a complete set of DNA in good condition, including that outside the gene stuff in the mitochondria, could be cloned. It has not been done for two reasons. The science of cloning is in its infancy and cloning is really hard even for animals still living from which we have unlimited good DNA.

Second, we don't have such DNA for any of those extinct mammals. All we have are bits and pieces and degraded samples. If cloning advances and DNA from extinct animals is obtained in good enough condition, it will happen.

There is no moral problem in restoring species that man himself drove to extinction, of which there are many. I'd like to see the Dodo brought back. But I'd like to see as many species as possible that were killed off by man brought back.

A forlorn hope though, for in reality extinction really is forever.

Yes, it is now possible. But to get an appropriate result it must be growing in the wombs of similar or related animals. The first ever cloned mammal was Dolly the Sheep.

But there is also claim for cloning of a fish and a tadpole in China. I am in favour rare types of tiger or tigress, (because I am verymuch fond of it ): • “Sabre-toothed tiger” (extinct: 10,000 years ago). It was preserved in sabre-toothed specimens from the La Brea tar pits in Los Angeles, and lions are close enough to be surrogates.

€¢ Tasmanian tiger: Extinct: 1936: The last Tasmanian tiger died in Hobart Zoo in 1936 which means there are well preserved tissues to obtain good-quality DNA. The tasmanian devil would make good surrogate. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/4161743/Extinct-animals-could-be-brought-back-to-life-thanks-to-advances-in-DNA-technology.html www.ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/05/cloned.../mueller-text.

If they can clone something from DNA then yes, I would think it'd be possible to get enough DNA from fossils but I personally think that nature is the way it should be, that is to say I'd not bring any extinct creature back.

(September 28, 2009 New Yorker mag), Michael Specter reports, “If the science truly succeeds, it will make it possible to supplant the world created by Darwinian evolution with one created by us. €? Jurassic Park, anyone?

Consider this: … researchers have now resurrected the DNA of the Tasmanian tiger, the world’s largest carnivorous marsupial, which has been extinct for more than seventy years. In 2008, scientists from the University of Melbourne and the University of Texas M. D.

Anderson Cancer Center, in Houston, extracted DNA from tissue that had been preserved in the Museum Victoria, in Melbourne. They took a fragment of DNA that controlled the production of a collagen gene from the tiger and inserted it into a mouse embryo. The DNA switched on just the right gene, and the embryo began to churn out collagen.

That marked the first time that any material from an extinct creature other than a virus has functioned inside a living organism. It will not be the last. A team from Pennsylvania State University, working with hair samples from two woolly mammoths—one of them sixty thousand years old and the other eighteen thousand—has tentatively figured out how to modify that DNA and place it inside an elephant’s egg.

The mammoth could then be brought to term in an elephant mother. €œThere is little doubt that it would be fun to see a living, breathing woolly mammoth—a shaggy, elephantine creature with long curved tusks who reminds us more of a very large, cuddly stuffed animal than of a T. Rex.

,â€? The Times editorialized soon after the discovery was announced. €œWe’re just not sure that it would be all that much fun for the mammoth.

€? The article discusses both the promise and the peril or reengineering nature. Personally, I am a bit skeptical that an extinct creature can be resurrected from DNA alone, but … wait!

What I thought was passing traffic turned out to be a herd of tyrannosaurs heading off to eat the McDonalds. So now to Uncommon Descent Contest Question 11: For a free copy of Stephen Meyer’s Signature in the Cell (Harper One, 2009), how likely do you think biotechnologists will be in bringing back the Tasmanian wolf or the woolly mammoth? You can try the tyrannosaur too if you are feeling ambitious.

Here are the contest rules, not an extensive read. (Note: I am sometimes a bit behind judging; sorry about that. I put a note in my task journal and it bugs me every day.

That’s enough punishment, I think. ).

Yes. It is now possible through the advanced DNA technology. I have observed the following list of ten extinct which the scientist are trying now.So, it should be considered first.

They are: 1. Neanderthal: Extinct: 25,000 years ago.2. Sabre-toothed tiger: Extinct: 10,000 years ago 3.

Short-faced bear: Extinct: 11,000 years ago 4. Tasmanian tiger: Extinct: 1936 5. Glyptodon: Extinct: 11,000 years ago 6.

Dodo: Extinct: AD1690 7. Woolly rhinoceros: Extinct: 10,000 years ago 8. Giant ground sloth: Extinct: 8,000 years ago 9.

Irish elk: Extinct: 7,700 years ago 10. Moa: Extinct: AD 1500.Www.newscientist.Com http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/4161743/Extinct-animals-could-be-brought-back-to-life-thanks-to-advances-in-DNA-technology.html.

I believe if an animal is preserved, such as in amber, ice, or tar, and there is some remaining DNA, I believe that it is completely feasible that you could bring an extinct species back to life. Isn't that scary what science can do, but we still don't have a cure for cancer? If we could complete this dream scenario of bringing back an extinct animal, I would nominate the Carcharodon megalodon, the largest every shark species!

The shark had a 30 foot mouth diameter when open, It had 7 in teeth, and could be up to 85 feet long! Note this is 4x longer than a great white shark. My guess though, is this ferocious beast is at rest for good reason-it probably became extinct because of its unbelievable hunting patterns; it ran out of food.

Probably, better that it was left to be extinct, before it evolved to walk on land and eat everything, before life on earth would cease. I would also nominate the Dodo bird because it is the most famous example of animals that were extinct due solely to human contact. They are really harmless and cute birds-flightless and eat only fruit.

I think it's a really interesting question, but I would rather bring back life forms that would not alter life on earth (like the Dodo bird, that became extinct because of humans), as opposed to the Carcharodon megalodon, which ate its way into extinction. But overall, I think it's best not to meddle with science in this way, and focus on preserving the species that we have on earth, and devote our energy into medical research.

Of course we all know that through DNA that it is possible to clone an extinct animal. So the question is which would I like to see come back. The answer is none.

They have had their chance on the Planet and what would they be. Kept in a cage as a tool to be poked and proded and put on display. You could not release them backinto the food chain and change this as the enviorment has already adapted to their not being there.

What a disaster it would be to release some predator that can takeover it's enviorment and destroy whats there.

I would love to see a Tasmanian wolf be brought back to life, looks like a beautiful and odd animal, wolflike in face and yet apparently a marsupial. Who knows, maybe Woolly mammoths have been brought back to life, and the media doesn't know. Ever read Michael Crichton's "Next"?

It's a fiction novel about the uses of genetics, hybrids etc. In it all sorts of transgenic animals have been created - we just don't know about them. :).

T-rex - make a come back! Why? Put him on a treadmill and help generate affordable electricity!

What a great family pet - if we can tame him! How about "roof patrol" - one better than a watch dog. What an exciting new sport competition: T-rex Triathalon.

Jurrasic Park has influenced the above statements (and those delicious glasses of Cabernet. ).

Albanian gave a good explanation about the feasibility of resurrecting extinct species like the wooly mammoth. The animals can be entirely the same genetically if intact DNA is found. However, unless the environment is tailored to match the very environment the animals lived in in the past, the risen animals will be slightly different.(Environment turns on or off genes and also cause them to mutate.) I would like to see all extinct animals and plants brought back to life, but above all, I would like to meet human ancestors and cousins.

It is time to put an end to the evolution vs creation debate. I think we will have a better chance of avoiding extinction if we understand how we became human, whether or not we confirm if we are really not animals.As the only surviving Neanderthal in Mahalo, I am eager to meet the cave women below. I would also die to meet hobbits and giants!

It is possible yes, by cloning fossils or bones using DNA. I am not sure how. The animal I would bring back is the dinosaur as big as a chicken that was a herbivore.

If they were brought back they probably would be the same. I think I would choose a dinosaur to be brought or one of those tyrannosaurus. They could help our troops.LOL.

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I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.