Jurassic Park for Real? - Cloning Extinct Animals

We should clone an array of organisms spanning all the way back to the Eocene, then we'll sign a treaty with Argentina and have a park built there, (because Argentina has the perfect assemblage of different sub climates) The park could be organised based on time period. Also mega-mammals are just as incredible as dinosaurs. Search up Indricotherium.

Worse then trying infill sequence gaps to clone a dinosaur.. could scientists fill it with anything to create, worse, a monster we know nothing about.. just for the sake of creating something ?

i think cloning is cool but things that wernt hunted to extinction died out for a reason also you are a mad man if you(some how)clone a MEGALODON!

hey. i like and love that idea. maybe someday people can recreate any extinct animals back to life.

i wanted 25 extinct animals that should be brought back:

25. dodo

24. great auk

23. moa

22. elephant bird

21. smilodon

20. mammoth species

19. mastodons

18. thylacinus

17. quagga

16. ground sloth species

15. glyptodont species

14. litopterns

13. toxodons

12. chalicotheres

11. brontotheres

10. diprotodons

9. short faced kangaroo species

8. cave bear

7. irish elk

6. woolly rhino

5. elasmotherium

4. palaeotheres

3. entelodonts

2. champsosaurus

1. dinosaurs

Black rhino (hundreds killed by poachers for what?? their horn),doodoo bird,Tasmanian tiger,i think man should replace what thyve killed off

i feel cloning is not just about right or wrong its about science and technology, in saying that how is cloning any different then any other technological piece of material, cloning should occer and will occer, its a huge step in human development and we should use it to bring back what was once lost not to put into the world so that it will cause danger but by building a spacific outdoor based zoo to let them roam but keep an eye on them, this way we can inhabit almost any animal by simply making an area sutible for its survival and if a recent envirnment will not suit them then brining back extinct plants shouldnt be that hard either to support the animals of extinction

Cloning is a good thing for animals to come back

Cloning is a good thing for animals to come back

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cloning dinosaurs might work but something might go wrong when you clone them 1 they might kill there pack 2 they might get sick 3 the power might go out from the thunderstorm 4 someone will steal the DNA from the visitor centor and clone them in the city and go on a rampage

Cloning extinct animals is a good idea but we probably should be careful with it, after all, we don't want a T-Rex roaming wild using us as a chew toy. But one safely enclosed in a zoo would bring quite the audience.

i wonder how scientjsts discover mysteries........................?????????????????

I think it's fine to clone extinct animals, especially the ones we caused or partially caused to go extinct.

I think that if we clone extinct animals, then it should only ones that humans caused, like, for instance, the Tasmanian Tiger, or the Black Rhino. There is also considerable evidence that humans caused the extinction of the Mammoth and other Ice Age Megafauna. And who knows, maybe re-introducing extinct animals may help endangered ones in some way?

I believe it would be a wonderful scientific advancement to bring back a mammoth or another extinct creature. However, it wasn't just due to humans that they died out. I think it would be better to bring back something more recently extinct. And also to start smaller. There are loads of threatened and recently extinct amphibians out there to work on.

creating dinosaurs from long degraded dna is improbable at the least. Also, you must bring into account that there is likely nothing that is still edible to dinosaurs, thus dooming it to a preamature demise. Yet, if we resurect a thylacine or a broad bill parrot, we would be undoing a horrible error. Also, most of the more recently extinct animals still have their prey running around, or food plants still growing. In conclusion, I belive that animals extinct or endangered due to human interference deserve a second chance, while bringing a triceratops would be cruel, and force them into a world that has been changed to much for them to live in

If we clone the animals of the dead i think they will roam the planet again

And i am scared because they will go to our local zoo

We should use it for endangered species.From extinction.

it is our mistake to fix

If we create the ones that died. The Earth will be reborned!

It will be the most amazing thing I will ever see in my life. I'm scared as well if they clone what will happen? Will Countries go in chaos and do the most stupidest things to these extinct animals?

Cloning is not the future, just a natural process in human evolution.

As long as it's not full human cloning, just certain organs, I believe it our responsibility to revive species of plants and animals that we destroyed, as it was our fault. The ones nature took, well, we shouldn't meddle with that.

I'm on board for this !!

Human cloning is ok, look at all the we might make great discoveries in biology. As long as the humans created are treated like humans, not animals and that they are not going to have an altered life due to their origin

Clone them. For an extinct animal to come back to life is amazing. Do it.

Cloning is just another discovery/invention like that of plastic except with lesser side effects like pollution. It hasn't been proven to be harmful yet so i see no harm in just shutting the hell up and seeing wat comes of it.

there is surely nothing wrong with attempting to clone animals, if it will help with any sort of human dieseases. The amount of people that beleive it is wrong are surely not thinking straight. Risking a few animals lives with failed cloning is surley worth the risk if it goes succesfuly it can save millions of humans? Would any of you sacrifice yourself if it stopped one monkey, or one sheep getting hurt? No, no one in their right mind would not.

It is key to our survival as a species to understand and create tools or devices to deal with our environment. Understanding our own genetic make up and being able to Control it is the key to immortality as a race and possibly as individuals. Otherwise we are just another flash in the pan soon gone and forgotten. I want to be immortal.if you want to die and be forgotten, then so be it.

I think is perfactly fine to clone animals and humans for.medical reasons

I think cloning is fine as long as were doing good for the environment

Cloning is good for bringing back the animals that WE caused to die off. this is a good opportunity to have some trial and error to increase our understanding of the unknown world of cloning. The more we work with it, the more likely we should be able to clone with weaker DNA, right?

i think stuff like cloning and tampering with animal's genetics is a certain thing we should put aside until we have better technology.... and until we can afford it. Sure, it may just be the answer to saving endangered species and bringing back dead ones, but lets get a little realistic. With the cost of cloning being at over $25,000, we wont be able to bring back very many at one time. So i say: the cloning of large animals, and reincarnating dead species is somthing to stay in the movies.

It's got some promise but, like most technology, we need to be careful about how we use it. I'm okay with using it to, say, bring Fido back to life.

I agree with hysongdesigns and I have to do a report too. And we are trying to fix our mistakes, not become god,firexis.

I have a lot of mixed feelings about this; messing around with nature is not something I think we should be doing. However, mankind has caused the extinction of quite a few animals in the past 100-200 years and it would be kind of cool to be able to bring them back to life; just that would they have any quality habitat to live in?

I think cloning is a great way to learn more about extinct species that we didn't know much about.

clones are a way to undo the harm us humans and the world has done to extinct animals

I belevie that cloning should be last resort for endangered species. and if we managed to bring back extict animals. we should leave them in zoos, their nautral ecosystem has changed

i have to wright a report on it

Wow, I think that cloning is the future, and is a great chance to save our endangered species

Cloning is going to happen eventually no matter how many people object. There are many scientific, ethical and economic benefits that come with the cloning of animals.

If humans are the reason some animals became extinct it would be immoral not to try and bring them back!

we should clone animals but not people. we can save many speices with cloning. all animals should be given a second chance of life we are the ones that killed them.

get some

Wing Commander, Ekperigan; you're a hypocrite. Do NOT go insulting American High School students and saying we are retarded when you can't even spell "RETARDED" correctly. Now why don't you run along, go back to high school so you can learn how to spell, and use proper grammar. Thanks; this was fun, now have a nice day.

P.S. Now, my opinion on cloning is that; yes it can be dangerous, possibly even immoral on some accounts, but it can also save lives and further studies.

do it for the sake of the internet bringing LOLz

Obviously most people on Squidoo are okay with cloning by the vast number of people on this side and not on that side. By the way life is not a movie "Jurassic park" we have other reasons for cloning besides pure human entertainment. We also are not cloning to just make a twin for whom ever wants one. I think cloning organs for those who need them is a new way or curing disease. And we can learn a lot and gain a lot from it. For anyone on the other side do some research. Anyone who says we are playing God well I am glad that one is out the window for me. Why would he of given us the means and motivation to do this if it wans't right. Everything in life has it's negative and positive pros and cons..so does this..but I think there are many more pros than cons.

people against the cloning of animal and human DNA are the lowest level of scum in the modern world. What stupid Americans do not realise is that in a modern society where its people do not hunt their food and live of the land evolution and natural selection has stopped, as the human body no longer needs to alter itself to meet the needs of its enviroment as would normally be the case in natural enviroment.

It is for this reason that cloning is not only acceptable but neccessary, as with no further human evolution and development we need to take control ourselves with the use of cloning. The potential posotives of Cloning are extreme from the smaller such as growing livestock population to the more Sci-Fi effects such as using cloning to alter the Genetic Makup of a Human (e.g. Altering your DNA to make your hair thicker and fuller, by adding a "thick hair gene" from a suitable donor).

The only real arguemnt that people have against cloning is that it is un-natural or "Against God", personally i think this is absurd, the human race is already 800 years technologically behind what it should be due to the "Dark Ages" where the research into science and technology was banned and in some areas was punishable by death. Know this is marginally acceptable for an extremley uneducated medieval society, but for people in 2010 to still believe that technology should be held back because of religion is a collosal outrage and i would like to personally hack these people up with an axe as they are in such large number that "Human Cloning" is still illegal.

One day Political leaders will wake up to the benefits of cloning and will then ignore the complaints from religious organistations and un-educated "God Loving" Americans.

p.s i do belive in some kind of Entity, but not a god as represented by any religion, as anyone with any logic would not follow the beliefs of a religion idealised over 2000 years ago when the standard of understanding and intelegence was equivalent to that of a retarted American high school student.

not just cloning but genetic engineering. we were put on this earth to evolve, survive, but mainly to create and eventually achieve anything. changing nature may seem wrong, but as humans its in our genes, and if you dont like that then you are gonna have to use genetic engineering to change it!

i feel great with cloning! i could survive longer. but heres a problem: meat eaters.

Taking a somewhat ethically approach on it, I think cloning is man playing God. But with that said, I believe that in the case where man has caused the extinction of a species, it is only fair to use this extiction to revive the species and give them a second chance. Creatures such as dinosaurs and early fish and reptiles and even the wooly mammoth lived in a very distant time and did not die due to mans ignorance so I don't think it's ethical to revive them. Plus the world has changed so much since their time and because they've been extinct for so long, the lack of the effects of evolution will probably lead them to suffer in our modern world. We don't know exact details of their habitats and needs so they may only suffer at our hands in our attempt for them to live again.

as for any tool definitely cloning too is a double sided coin, but it can provide a lott towards the disease treatment , genetics , and ecology. as per my view we should move forward with cloning, through which miracles are going to happen.

Cloning has been done for many years with plants and no one seems to be concerned with that nor has it given any ill effect on us or the various plants it has been done with. In fact some plant species naturally clone their selves. It has been an extremely useful tool and I can see no problem at all with cloning used for increasing numbers of rare breeds of animals whether they be wild life or domesticated animals. I also feel it would fantastic to use it bring back species from extinction particularly species who's extinction was caused by we humans. People should not get cloning and genetic modification confused as they are very different subjects.

To be honest when I am older I want to be a paleontoligist so the benifets of being able to clone extinct animals would be collosal. This also shows that humans can and probably will sustain life this way if nessasery which I think is amazing.

oh yes and to the people that talk jiberish about God thinking cloning is wrong you do not even need to wright comments if you are going to wright pure crap. In short HE DOES NOT EXIST AND SAME FOR JESUS.

If cloning is used to bring back or save species this is the most brilliant way to help life evolve and carry on. Also if cloning can revive extinct animals even better, because if humans are responsible for making some other animals go extinct. It is simply disgusting, humans are also animals so it is like wipeing out out one of your own. For example humans wiped out the thyclaine just because it was killing live stock, it did not know what it was doing. Simply it was trying to survive. And humans wipeing it out was wrong. So if people learn to clone, the mistakes made in the past can be corected and life can get back on track like it should have. But on the other hand if a species goes extinct due to a natural cause it just means it had it's shot at life and it failed but reviving it could not do any harm either. In conclusion I think that cloning is the future and it should be continued.

yes do it !!!! can u bring back saber tooth tigerr

it cant be the same exact animal reliving again? i mean, all you are doing is getting the female animal pregnant just with genes from an old species. Example: people get a tiger pregnant with a lion by breeding them. its the same thing except without the male. therefore its not cloning or a sin, i think?

Start with something small and recent like the tasmanian tiger or dodo bird. They may have a better chance compared to the bigger and centuries old dinosaurs and wooly mammoth

Ashley, you've been watching jurassic park too much. there are reasons for extinction but thats no excuse not to try. There is a book in stores now by Jack horner called How To Build a Dinosaur. It talks about a new way palentologists can better understand evolution, creating a dinosaur out of a simple chicken (Chickenosaurus). Think of the benifits of having true prehistoric animals to learn about are evolutionary paths. And about god, im chatholic so i know what you mean, Docters play god everyday by saving lives & helping diliver babies, whether you like it or not, we all play god every day in are lives. Finally, yes, i do believe if dinosaurs returned to life, mankind would survive. if we can survive are modern wildlife, we can surely cope with a dinosaurs existence. They are more like are modern wildlife than you think. I think all we can take from jurassic park is the idea of containment, The animals could be contained in one of the many isolated areas or islands of are Earth. If you want to see how prehistorc animals would survive in the 21st centurey, buy BBC six part series Prehistoric Park, the real Jurassic Park. sure we may have struggles but we can overcome, "life will find a way".

Bryan, have you ever stopped to think that perhaps the dinosaurs were a failed experiment of sorts and that they weren't meant to survive? Perhaps by cloning them to "bring them back to life" we would be playing God. Also, do you honestly believe that we would have a snowball's chance in hell if the dinosaurs did come back?

By cloning extinct animals, mankind would be giving prehistoric nature a second chance. The dinosaurs never had a chnce to survive. with cloning we can even keep are modern wildlife from suffering the same fate as the dinosaurs and mamoth

WE ARE GOING TO CHANGE THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HELLO!!!!!!!! do you guys know how FREAKIN intersting this would be it would be a whole new world before our own eyes! i mean think about it! and themedievalnun we could put the whoolly mamoth in artica were it is below like 3 degress a day so i mean dont be a know it all! see there we found a place!

i think this is very extrodinary and cool this could change the world as we see it know i mean i am only 15 but this is amazing! it would be just a great pleasure to see a wolly mammoth alive instead of a movie you know! it would be just awesome! to explore the world that the cavemen did! BUT! we have to be careful and not turn it into jurrasic park and allow the dinosaurs to take over! that would be pretty scary! but this is just so freakin interisting

that second post was aimed at themedievilnun s***!

also to the douche bag that says the humans that are inferior, well get a life i hope your children become inferior its not a fault not being nfertile its not their fault its yours, they are infertile due too a number of reasons like people like you, im only 15 but dont try and stick all this down other peoples throats you heartless cow, also if we did clone a mammoth and you say they requir and arctic tundra and your wondering where to put them well you have just answered it we would put them in our arctic tundras yea not many left but russia so you know dont say nothing

they died for a reason, the animals had their chance and like us when our ansestors split into groups we survived and evolved better, apes continued on into lesser and greater apes but the lesser developed humanoids died out as they could not out compete us,

however with this in mind i want to clone an animal it is the future and plus i want to see a dino and do not start saying it is against gods plans or whatever if he did not want us doing anyhing like this he would not have let us get even this far.

I can understand cloning extinct animals as well living species for research reasons. Instead I can't see any sound need in cloning human beings, but only dangers and problems; future laws will account for this. I imagine that all this will be valid at least in the near future, till when human ethics will not change ...

We shouldn't clone ourselves ret#^!s we sould be cloning ectinct animals.

With the great leaps and bounds made throughout all fields in recent history and those that i hope will continue far into our uncertain future, it would be a sad thing to not take advantage of the knowledge gained through our myriad mistakes and on occasion make an effort to perhaps correct some of them.

i say clone animals which are easy to kill or it may happen we be no longer the top of the food chain

not everyone is christian and believes in god.

so you can't tell everyone out there that it is religiously wrong.

so technically religion is not a sound argument against cloning - it isnt universal

science, however, you cant argue with

I say to science hater that god did not say cloning was wrong as the people who wrote the bible did not even know what cloning was.

Cloning humans is wrong but we should clone endangered and extinct species like Dodos and Pandas.

apparently jesus wasn't no grammer expert either... science hater...

if your a believer then think about this

- god gave us gifts, gifts of knowledge, intuition and imagination. why would he give us such amazing talents if he intended us NOT to use them.

if god is all knowing and allmighty SURELY he would have seen this coming.

you cant stop progress

Cloning is possible, just like Jamal said, Genetic engineering and cloning is agood combination. the future era.

it could be possible to create dead animals from living animals.for................- example,take a ostrich,and switch on dino dna,give it bulked.......................- legs,claws,teeth[meat or plant],skin[feather or scales],and,of course,a.........- tail.well,its possible.

we should clone all species killed by modern man. For endangered species there should be an active collecting of quality DNA for the future. Thank God for zoos. Tubal ligations and Vasectomies for all humans (I've had one)

Like it or not, I believe cloning will become an important part of our future society. It's probably not a good a idea to go and resurrect every animal from Earth's past...but if it can be done, you can bet someone will do it.

Cloning could save human and animal lives alike. I think it along with stem cell research is perfectly fine.

Cloning is a necessary thing the humans will have to prepare for. It could save the food supply for the future, provide organs to those who need it. It coud also be used to save an extinct species if it is perfected enough- like to save dinosaurs, mammoths or dragons- lol

Those who desire to retard and hinder our most productive natural resource, the thinking human mind, are fools. Science will take us wherever we have the courage to follow it. Critics who lash out at science while using the Internet to do so are just sad . . . and funny. But mostly sad.

There should be no artificial limit placed on knowledge, only a natural limit.

WOw, to think one day the zoos would have wooly mammoth rides and sabbertooth tiger exibits is like my birthday wish came true. Now all the kids of the future might still see a polar bear or might even see something we never got to see like a dino.

What a wonderful thing is modern science! I hope to see the Australian Thylacine soon.

Cloning like all new technologies has both positive and negative effects. I am niether for nor against cloning. While in true the benefits are even with the risks, technology in itself is a product of humanity and humanity alone. Whether or not our technology is used for positive or negative is our choice and ours alone. For me Im a future biotechnologist and this is my view point!

cloning will being back all of the dinos back

but I think all of you have a point and Fred, what if in these animals there's a cure for one of these diseases huh? what then? people are finding cures for diseases in lots of animals here and now! who knows what the animals of the past have to offer? I don't quite agree with the cloning humans though...ick...another adolf hitler...bad image...

well as long as we don't go to far with this cloning thing it should be fine. people and bring back the extinct animals we never knew about and perhaps in these animals are an unknown cure for a disease or something. anyways. just don't go to far and you'll be fine. But you don't have to listen to me. I'm just a 12 year old girl...

At the rate we are killing off animal species, we need to do something. Yes, we should save the animals we have now, but there is nothing we can do to save some of them since they have too few numbers to reproduce. If cloning them can bring back some of the animals humans have killed off or are close to being killed off, I say of course we should do it.

We live in an amazing age indeed. Cloning is definitely in our future and I certainly don't want to be on some mythical Ethical Committee.

I agree with Jordan.

Using Cloning to give rebirth to exctinct species is worth a shot, and therapuedic cloning is wonderful, but human cloning is expensive, pointless, and unethical.

Cloning extinct species may be the key to survival for all of mankind. We need to intimately understand what kills species if we want to last. At this point, humans are so far advanced in our evolution that our mutations have slowed, creating fewer highly differing alleles--something that is needed if there are any extreme changes to the environment in which we live...and, with all the dangers of the modern world (viral evolution and weaponization, nuclear warfare, etc.) heaven knows we may stand only years away from a disaster that could potentially wipe mankind from the face of the planet.

We need cloning to survive...let's get to work.

let's combine dna to make incredibly and exciting new animals.and invent dna machines.my new machine idea;dna -model creator.

Cloning can be useful in eliminating diseases and choosing only

healthy superior genes,a superior race as long as its not used

for evil purposes could even make einsteins.

Endangered species that we ourselves have made extict - like the woolley mammoth should be saved, i believe.

eh its just another way to slowly destroy the world, im sure the world is probs going to be over by the time they can clone humans anyway. it good to think that we can bring back animals that we have destroyed

well, i can say that cloning is our way to be with our departed prehistoric animals....

I think that cloning is a controversial idea. There, in my persoal opioin, is nothing wrong with cloning. But what rights would the clone have? Cloning has been sucessful with lower speiecs, but should we go into humans. We must consider if the clone would be considered an indiviual. Would it have rights? Could it vote? Would it ever be considered more than an "it"? Would the prospect of being a clone drive it mad, segragate it from the general public, or create a whole new speices enterly? How would it be raised? What if it found out? Would it be hailed, or regected? Who would know?

I have no problem with using cloning to try to bring back a species that recently went extinct, or is nearly extinct - however bringing back an animal that has been gone for centuries could be dangerous. It may now have no natural preditors and an introduction of a new species into any ecology system could just throw it off. As for humans...no! We have enough procreating as it is!