Bring an animal back

[QuestionableMouse]

Any animal from any era.

I'd bring mammoths back. I find them absolutely fascinating and can't imagine something that big.

What would you bring back?

Original Wolfhounds.

Diplodocus. Or isnt there a chinese dolphin that went extinct recently.

One of those 20ft sloths

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Yet another vote for the dodo. I'd also love to see the giant dragonflies we apparently had millions of years ago.

Great auks, a bit like penguins, but from the North.

Definitely NOT my mother! 🧟‍♀️

Not strictly an animal but neanderthals. It would be fascinating to see a human ancestor in the flesh.

We are the Neanderthals ... they "interbred" with h. sapiens (Probably better not to think too deeply about that one.)

Birds are the descendants of dinosaurs too.

If we had the power to bring back an extinct species, maybe it should be one we definitely offed in the first place ? So Dodos ?

Theoretically mammoths are a possibility. They found one frozen in ice, and were able to extract DNA. They think that it's closely related enough that a modern elephant could be used for an egg and surrogate to clone the frozen mammoth.

However as the mammoth behaviour is thought it be learned, it would live it's life as a hairy elephant, with the surrogate mother (at best), or in isolation at some science facility.

@mogtheexcellent

Did you see the Diplodocus skeleton that toured the country last year? I saw it at the Hancock museum in Newcastle and it was absolutely amazing.

The extinct subspecies of European bison, and the aurochs. DP and I visited a hunting museum in France a couple of years ago, which was a bit gruesome with loads of stuffed creatures, including one of the last bison (of a subspecies) to die in Poland, that made me feel quite ill.

@QuestionableMouse I remember dippy from the NHM as a child. Was stupidly excited about dippy coming to Norwich this year and showing DD but covid has delayed it till next year.

I'm sure she'll absolutely love it. My little nephew (who was 3 at the time) couldn't believe it was real.

Thylacine (not convinced they are totally extinct, but still...)
Aurochs. Terrifying, but great to have herds of those wandering about. There wouldn't be any threads about 'am I safe to walk through a herd of cattle' with those!

I don't think many other animals that are currently extinct would manage to survive terribly well in our current world and climate, so maybe I'll leave it at that.

Trilobites

Aurochs! I bet they'd be farms springing up to sell their meat for lots of £££!

We are the Neanderthals ... they "interbred" with h. sapiens

I'm sure I've seen an estimate that we have around 2% Neanderthal DNA. And also that this only relates to non-African populations, as Neanderthals never lived in Africa.

If we're looking at bringing humanoid species back, what about Denisovan? Another species interbreeding with H. Sapiens, and leaving markers in today's Asian, Native American, Melanesian, Papua and Aboriginal populations.

And then there were the tiny humanoids specimens found that were nicknamed hobbits, think they were on an island somewhere in the Indian Ocean, certainly somewhere around Asia.

New Zealand moa, they just look incredible. They could be up to 12ft tall. They’d be terrifying 😂

@GarlicSoup @QuestionableMouse I went to a museum that had an exhibition that included a Sabre Tooth skeleton. To look at it from the side was 'Oh, that's big', but to cross its path to get to the next bit of the exhibition was impossible - it triggered a fear response.

It was quite the adrenalin rush - but other people could just stroll blithely in front of it.

I suspect somebody somewhere had deliberately arranged it so they could film and record how many people had the 'PREDATOR! FREEZE!' response.

Shame that as a species, we can't and won't manage to keep the animals that have hung on despite us. Bringing back something would be cool. But if they managed to make it to the wild, I'm sure that a Sabre Tooth, Auroch, Mammoth, Mastodon and Great Auk, etc, would soon be the must have species for rich American hunters. And the price of each as a more-traditional-than-traditional remedy would be a huge factor in that.

@MitziK

I used to work at a private school that had a stuffed grizzly bear in the lobby. I had the same response! Couldn't walk past it. I used to go the long way to the office to collect the post. 😂

Aurochs?

The Nazi cows?

Dodo, mammoth and triceratops all appeal.

Those aren't real aurochs though, you can back breed to something that looks like them, but won't actually have the same genetics.

Actually, I've thought of a nice one — old fashioned pugs that could breathe better. Either replace 'new' pugs with them, or breed them together until you get something closer to the old type.

@gingernaut. Be fair and accurate - Nazi Murder Cows.

I meant the actual originals. it would put paid to dog walkers strolling through the fucking fields with their untrained mutts unleashed

Those aren't real aurochs though, you can back breed to something that looks like them, but won't actually have the same genetics.

Aren't modern oxen descended from them ?

Most domesticated animals have wild (usually bigger) forebears ?