can this bring the extinct dodo birds back out of extinction?
if we got a DNA sample out of the bone marrow, and using that DNA, we clone the dodo? would this work...
if we got a DNA sample out of the bone marrow, and using that DNA, we clone the dodo? would this work...
Em N
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I'm not sure about the dodo, but a previous answer had the mammoth comment at least partially right. DNA decays and breaks down just like the rest of a body after death, so any sample pulled from a dodo (like a stuffed one in a museum) would be pretty busted up. That being said, animals with close living relatives (like the mammoth or the North American lion, or many other large Pleistocene mammals) do have a possibility of resurrection.
Some scientists are trying to splice (combine) mammoth DNA with African elephant DNA and implant the "clone" into a captive elephant. These two species are similar enough that an elephant female could theoretically give birth to a mammoth.
Even if this works, it will unfortunately not bring these species truly out of extinction - their habitats are gone, and we can barely keep alive what species are left. It would most likely be a tourist attraction or a scientific study. Besides, animals learn a lot from their parents, and without parents of the same species, the "new" dodos or mammoths would never be what the once were.
austin v
If that worked nothing would be extinct, now would it?
Anonymous
a few months ago somehow they recreated a living mammoth, so i guess its posible
Anonymous
sounds like Jurassic park if you ask me