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Can extinct animals be cloned and come back to the world?

Like lets say they want to bring back the dodo and put it back in its natural habitat wherever that might be. Is this possible?

Public Comments

1. no because it has to be a living organism to be cloned
2. It's possible. All they need is a somatic cell from the extinct animal and insert it's nucleus into the egg cell of an animal that it's able to interbreed and then insert the egg into the womb.
3. In this generation, it is impossible to bring the deceased back to life. However, they may come up with an invention like that in the future. Though it would be very bad if they did. No one would ever die, and this world can only hold so much. Greedy is not the answer.
4. In theory its would be possible, but there are a lot of ifs. The technology does not as yet exist to routinely clone any animals. More significantly, you would have to find frozen tissue sufficiently well preserved that you could isolate intact cell nuclei in which the DNA had not been damaged in the years since extinction happened and the samples were frozen. If you were to plan to resurrect a species that was about to die out by saving cell samples from the remaining animals this might help.