Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th, 2021 (Eastern Time) and beginning April 20th, 2021 (Eastern Time) the Yahoo Answers website will be in read-only mode. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services, or your Yahoo account. You can find more information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown and how to download your data on this help page.

Anonymous
Anonymous asked in Science & MathematicsZoology · 1 decade ago

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...

4 Answers

Relevance
  • 1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    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.

    Source(s): http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10533418/ Interview I saw with the head "Pleistocene Park" scientist Me, a physical anthropologist
  • 1 decade ago

    If that worked nothing would be extinct, now would it?

    Source(s): My Brain.
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    a few months ago somehow they recreated a living mammoth, so i guess its posible

    Source(s): msn.com
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    sounds like Jurassic park if you ask me

Still have questions? Get your answers by asking now.