If you could bring one extinct species back into the world, what would it be?
This week’s hypothetical
StandardIf you could bring one extinct species back into the world, what would it be?
If you could bring one extinct species back into the world, what would it be?
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Dinosaurs–they’re frickin’ awesome!
Christians.
“Dinosaurs” is not one species.
Let’s see. If we’re interested in (re-)establishing a population that can live in the wild rather than a tiny zoo remnant (and that’s a big “if”), then probably we don’t want to do any of the charismatic mega-predators. T-Rexes are neat to look at, but you can’t imagine people being cool with introducing them into the wild. Even triceratops are probably a no-go.
How about Homo Neanderthalensis (ie, the Neandrethals)? Another intelligent species? That’d be pretty cool.
Hmmm, if we are going to go with charismatic mega-fauna, how about Quetzalcoatlus, the perhaps-largest-flying creature that ever lived? A pterosaur with a 10 meter wingspan. Seeing one of those in the air would have to be awesome. And they probably didn’t eat human-sized things. :P