If they could bring back an extinct creature into the present day, what would you like it to be?

Really, if all the genetic material was good enough to clone, and the problems of surrogate mothers and inbreeding were tackled, I would love to see a living thylacine, or Tasmanian Tiger. These are probably good candidates for reviving an extinct species since good genetic material was obtained, and their native island could probably support a small population still as not much has changed there since the early 1900s, when the species was wiped out.

A project to clone the thylacine was held a few years ago, but was abandoned due to lack of funds and incomplete genetic information. A new project was started in 2008 I think, but I haven't heard of it since.

There are always debates on whether extinct animals should be brought back, however. Most ecological niches for animals long extinct like mammoths and sabre-toothed cats are taken up by other animals in modern times, and bringing them back to life could create problems as to where to put them, and whether breeding them would be any use at all.

I think that eventually extinct animals would be cloned but whether this would be a good choice or not is questionable.

the completed earth replaced into coated with the Flood waters, and the international that then existed replaced into destroyed with the help of the very waters out of which the earth had initially emerged at God's command (Genesis a million:9; 2 Peter 3:5,6). yet the position did those waters bypass after the flood? there are quite some Scripture passages that detect the flood waters with the recent-day seas (Amos 9:6 and interest 38:8-c4ca4238a0b92382dcc509a6f75849bc4ca4238a0b92382dcc509a6f75849b note “waves”). If the waters are nonetheless the following, why are the optimal mountains no longer nonetheless coated with water, as they were in Noah's day? Psalm c4ca4238a0b92382dcc509a6f75849b04 shows an answer. After the waters coated the mountains (verse 6), God rebuked them and they fled (verse 7); the mountains rose, the valleys sank down (verse 8) and God set a boundary so that they'll by no skill back conceal the earth (verse 9)[a million]. they're the same waters! Isaiah provides this same fact that the waters of Noah might want to by no skill back conceal the earth (Isaiah fifty 4:9). obviously, what the Bible is telling us is that God acted to modify the earth's topography. New continental landmasses bearing new mountain chains of folded rock strata were uplifted from less than the globe-encircling waters that had eroded and leveled the pre-Flood topography, even as large deep ocean basin were shaped to get carry of and accommodate the Flood waters that then drained off the rising continents. for this reason the oceans are so deep, and why there are folded mountain ranges. certainly, if the completed earth's floor were leveled with the help of smoothing out the topography of no longer in straight forward words the land floor yet as well the rock floor on the sea floor, the waters of the sea might want to conceal the earth's floor to a intensity of one million.7 miles (2.7 kilometers). we want to bear in techniques that almost 70 p.c. of the earth's floor continues to be coated with the help of water. quite obviously, then, the waters of Noah's Flood are in immediately's ocean basins.

If I could bring back any extinct animal back into the present day then it would have to be of all the species of lions that went extinct such as American Lions, European Lions, Cave Lions, Cape Lions, Barbary Lions, Sri Lanka Lions, or whatever else lion that has became extinct and why you may ask? well because you see here lions are my favorite animal in the whole world and I couldn't imagine living on earth without em' you know, it's like let's put it this way: I feel like i'm a part of them even though i'm actually human but I feel like lions are sort of like my second family for some odd reason and I just can't help the fact that i'm totally in love with these amazing and magnificent big cats and also i'll bring back my favorite dinosaur: Tyrannosaurus Rex even my favorite shark: Megalodon or whatever other species of sharks are extinct as a matter of fact, i'm going to put it this way, i'll bring back all extinct carnivorous and omnivorous animals that went extinct just because they are awesome !!!!!!!!

Probably the passenger pigeon - 200 years ago there were millions of them in North America but by 1914 they'd been hunted to extinction by people.

Also, Meiolania (like a giant horned tortoise from Australia) would be interesting.

A pterosaur would be fun, imagine being able to fly.

Your question has more substance than might be realised because if the meteorite hadn’t hit the earth (or whatever other chain of events are thought to have brought down the dinosaurs) there are theories that we might have evolved from them, hatching out of eggs and some of us being able to fly.

If we became extinct after a nuclear holocaust the dinosaurs may pick up from where they left off and all of human existence wouldn’t even register in the (expected) 8 billion year history of the earth.

In the meantime let us enjoy our imagined superior existence.

Definitely one that was made extinct by man and should still be here. As I love equines of all types I think I would go for the quagga a type of zebra which came from South Africa. More friendly than other zebras it was of course used and abused and eventually hunted to extinction.

Here's a picture.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quagga

I would like it to be a dodo so I would have a change from chicken eggs I would have dodo eggs for breakfast--lunch--dinner and tea.

Ausktribosphenos would be interesting, but probably not to very many people. It was a Lower Cretaceous mammal from Australia and could, or perhaps not, throw light on the origins of the platypus. A genetic analysis would be good.

Tasmanian Tiger.

definitely a dodo :)