According to CNN...
"A team of scientists from Japan, Russia and the United States hopes to clone a mammoth, a symbol of Earth’s ice age that ended 12,000 years ago, according to a report in Japan’s Yomiuri Shimbun. The researchers say they hope to produce a baby mammoth within six years."
This is a bad idea. While Google-ing around...I mean...while researching the wooly mammoth, I found a few lists of other not quite so scary extinct mammals that I would prefer these guys attempt to clone instead of something that is going to probably come back and bite them...and all of us...on our collective asses.
1. Megaloceros - Huge ass deer/elk. Seven feet tall at the shoulders, twelve foot antler span. I know we all have friends who would like to give this guy a shot. Literally.
2. Dodo Bird - I've always felt sorry for the dodo bird, because as Wikipedia...I mean...as my research shows, "...its extinction occurred during recorded human history and was directly attributable to human activity." We owe it to the dodo bird to bring him back since we extincted him.
3. Great Auk - This one deserves to be brought back because, "The last known auk in Scotland was executed in 1840, after local villagers thought that it was a witch." Scotland. What the hell?
4. Lesser Bilby - Just because he's cute...
As a side note, scientists, lets not clone anything in the extinct rodent family. Bison sized guinea pig? I'm not cleaning that cage.
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1 comment:
I didn't know you were such an intellectual and defender of the lesser bilby. It just increases my awe for your wonderfulness
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