Extinct species - should they be revived?

What do you all think? Do you think they should be revived? or just let it be, and not try to mess with nature?

I am confused about it…I feel it is ok for some of them to be revived…and not ok for some…like I don’t think the woolly mammoth should be revived :confused: It is TOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HUGE…and ppl might start killing them all over again!

these are some of the species that could be brought back :

Woolly Mammoth
A museum worker inspects a replica of a woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius), a species that went extinct 3,000 to 10,000 years ago. In March 2012, scientists in Russia and South Korea announced a partnership to try to clone the mammoth and generate a living specimen.

Gastric-Brooding Frog
In this file photo, a tiny froglet can be seen in the mouth of its mother, a gastric-brooding frog. In this novel form of parental care, the female swallowed her fertilized eggs. Her stomach then stopped producing acid, becoming a makeshift womb. Later, she regurgitated fully formed froglets.
Two species of gastric-brooding frogs made their homes in creeks in a relatively small area of tropical forest in Queensland, Australia, the southern gastric-brooding frog (Rheobatrachus silus) and the northern gastric-brooding frog (Rheobatrachus vitellinus). The species were discovered in 1973 and 1984, respectively, but by the mid-1980s they had both disappeared.

Passenger Pigeon
The passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) numbered in the billions in North America during the 19th century, but by the early 20th century, it had gone extinct, thanks to relentless hunting and habitat pressure. Now, geneticist Ben Novak and a handful of other scientists are working on bringing it back.

Dodo
A dodo skeleton sits opposite a reconstructed model of the extinct bird in the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff. The dodo (Raphus cucullatus) is an extinct flightless bird that once lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean.
The last widely accepted sighting of the dodo was in 1662, less than one hundred years after the bird was first described by Dutch sailors. The large birds were preyed upon by sailors and the invasive animals they brought with them. Because Mauritius had few predators, the birds had few defenses.

Pyrenean Ibex
The Pyrenean ibex (Capra pyrenaica) was a wild goat native to the Iberian Peninsula. It went extinct in 2000 due to hunting and competition from domestic animals.
Before the species expired, scientists collected DNA from one of the last living females and froze it, to reduce degradation. Over several years, researchers tried to clone back the species, using a related goat as a surrogate. One of the clones was born in 2009, but it lived for only seven minutes.


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Carolina Parakeet

The Carolina parakeet (Conuropsis carolinensis) was the only native species of parrot in the eastern United States, having ranged from southern New York to the Gulf of Mexico, and as far west as Wisconsin. The gregarious parakeets lived in mature forests along rivers, where they feasted on fruits and nuts.
The population of these birds declined through the 19th century, however, as agricultural expansion destroyed habitat, and many of the birds were collected for their feathers and the pet trade. Introduced honey bees may also have outcompeted them for nests. Finally, many orchard managers poisoned Carolina parakeets because they could damage crops. The last known wild Carolina parakeet was killed in Florida in 1904, and the last captive bird died at the Cincinnati Zoo in 1918.

Woolly Rhinoceros

The woolly rhino (Coelodonta antiquitatis) is another species of Pleistocene megafauna that was depicted in prehistoric cave art, like the woolly mammoth. There is considerable debate about precisely when the woolly rhino went extinct, but it is thought to be around the end of the ice age, roughly 10,000 years ago.
A few woolly rhino carcasses have been recovered from the permafrost in Siberia, and one highly intact one was pulled from a tar pit in Starunia, Poland. Some DNA analysis has been done, and a study published in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution concluded that the woolly rhino’s nearest living relative is the Sumatran rhino. Unfortunately, that species is barely hanging on itself, and is listed as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

Moa

The moa were a group of nine species (in six genera) of large flightless birds that lived in New Zealand. The largest, Dinornis robustus and Dinornis novaezelandiae, dwarfed the modern ostrich, reaching a height of 12 feet (3.6 meters) and weight of 510 pounds (230 kilograms).
Moa disappeared by the year 1400, after being hunted by the Maori, and after their habitat was disturbed for farmland.

Thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger)

Roughly the size of a large dog, the thylacine or Tasmanian tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus) was a striped carnivorous marsupial that lived on Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea. Tasmania was its last stronghold, but the animal was pronounced extinct in the 1930s. Loss of habitat and introduced dogs likely played a role, although most biologists point to hunting as a primary cause.


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I remember when I was little, I read about the Dodo…I remember thinking what a funny bird it was, and ever funnier name…more like Dumdum :cb:

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Sure. Who will volunteer to perform CPR?

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Why CPR?

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Isn't that how they revive people? Do I have to splain everything?

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^not after they are dead uncle ji…and these are animals :pcg:

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Have I not made it clear thou shall not argue with me?

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Nope, thou hath not made it clear... :D