An extinct cave lion, at least 10,000 years old

Re:An extinct cave lion, at least 10,000 years old by hugh4 on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @03:44PM (#10466834)

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.

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Re:An extinct cave lion, at least 10,000 years old by jessaustin on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @04:13PM (#10467051)

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...

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Re:An extinct cave lion, at least 10,000 years old by gnoway on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @07:26PM (#10468140)

Maybe because similar things have already happened. Columbia has a small problem with escaped hippos originally brought in by Pablo Escobar.

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Re:An extinct cave lion, at least 10,000 years old by Mz on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @07:28PM (#10468149)

Or, you know, film crews:

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