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How do you feel about bringing extinct animals(dinosaurs) back to life?

Especially since we are destroying so many species right now with our toxins in the air, earth and water. Every now and then I read that scientists have enough dinosaur DNA to bring one bak to life. One article talked about a theme park.

Public Comments

1. yea and they will eat us all.
2. It would be awesome but we would die.
3. Assuming it is possible bringing back any extinct animal is pointless if there is no habitat or proper environment that they can live in.
4. One of Two things will happen. 1. The dinosaurs would limit are population by 2 quaters many of us will try to train them but probably will die because dinosaurs are not smart enough not to tell a human from food. The army will step in and start killing them off. 2. Are polution will make it hard for a dinosaur to thrive and they will die off but some will live in zoo's so they can have the right living conditions. Bonus. The dinosaurs are actually zombie dinosaurs and then they spread the disease to humans and it becomes an epic movie that stephen Spielberg will steal. Bonus 2.0 (V). The dinosaurs end up really smart and make the humans slaves... V coming back this January!
5. dumb idea, they'll kill us.
6. Most extinctions are caused by land clearing and habitat destruction. The idea of bringing an extinct animal back without restoring their habitat is just about our own sentimentality.
7. Bringing a dinosaur to life could create new viruses and diseases.
8. Are you sure you weren't reading Jurassic Park?
9. If it ever becomes possible it might be a good idea in some cases if for example, the extinct animal might restore the natural ecology of an environment, or prove commercially useful. Bringing a dinosaur back to life might not be feasible if, as others note, there's no suitable habitat. But a few, perhaps smaller ones, might be interesting zoo exhibits and any dinosaur would be scientifically of enormous interest as it would settle the great controversies of dinosaur ectothermy vs homothermy, bird origins etc.
10. Absolutely not.. Even if it becomes possible for us to clone dinosaurs, it'd have a number of problems. Cloned animals tend to be more likely to become sick or develop health problems and die. Any cloned animal hasn't lived very long at all. They cloned an extinct species of Ibex, but it died right after it was "born" because of health complications. Cloning a dinosaur would be even harder. All we have are bones. No DNA strands or proteins are left on a bunch of bones. If we did accomplish cloning them by some amazing feat, they'd get health problems, and even if that didn't happen (highly unlikely) they'd be too hard to maintain. We already are having overpopulation problems with our current, smaller species because of human towns and cities. Deers, bears, etc., and like you said, we're destroying them. By placing some creature that is seriously out of the ordinary would upset the natural order even more. Florida had a species of snake not native to the area introduced there, and now, these snakes are everywhere and causing problems. Dinosaurs wouldn't really have a natural enemy, the herbivores and carnivores would just be in a rat race between themselves. To bring in more species that couldn't fit in this current world would be crazy. Not to mention, a clone animal doesn't have the personality of the original animal. If I was cloned, my clone could very well be an idiot and nothing like me at all. Therefore, a Tyrannosaur wouldn't act as it did 65 million years ago. Humans are generally a vulnerable species as far as natural defense mechanisms go. A Tyrannosaur could eat a 6 ft man in one bite, so if they really wanted to, they'd have no problem doing so. Even if they were put in zoo.. Try maintaining a Tyrannosaur in a zoo exhibit, which is exactly what scientists want to clone. They're approx. 40 feet long and 20 feet high. To even begin to finance and maintain such a creature in an exhibit isn't possible. We can't even maintain a Great White Shark in captivity, and that's nothing on a Tyrannosaur or even a Megalodon. The plants they had then are way different from now, as well. There could be problems diet-wise for some. overall, I feel it's an awful idea and a disaster waiting to happen.