Re:An extinct cave lion, at least 10,000 years old
by Kutta on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @03:40PM
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The species for which revival is technologically plausible are those with well-preserved frozen specimens, mainly pleistocene (mega)fauna like mammoths and the lions presented here. They lived at most a few tens of thousands of years ago, which is geologically barely worth mentioning, and the atmospheric composition hasn't changed much since then, or not in ways relevant to animals.
Re:An extinct cave lion, at least 10,000 years old
by hugh4 on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @03:44PM
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This was only ten thousand years ago, though.
Anything that lived millions of years ago we're very unlikely to find enough intact genetic material to string a genome together anyway.
You would of course need some kind of zoo, reintroducing a new apex predator into the wild would probably wind up bad for somebody.
Re:An extinct cave lion, at least 10,000 years old
by jessaustin on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @04:13PM
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Bad for somebody, but still fun! This is the sort of thing I could imagine a dictator of a 'stan or a drug lord doing...
Re:An extinct cave lion, at least 10,000 years old
by gnoway on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @07:26PM
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Maybe because similar things have already happened. Columbia has a small problem with escaped hippos originally brought in by Pablo Escobar.
So, as one example, the earth has substantially less oxygen than it did millions of years ago. This means giant dragonflies cannot breathe in our current atmosphere. You would need to put them in a special chamber that recreates their niche, possibly without knowing what parameters are critical to their survival.