Reply #51: Good point... [View All]

[Solon]

The Mammoth is a really good candidate for a resurrection of sorts. Take Male Mammoth sperm, inject it in a Modern Female's egg, she gets pregnant, gives birth to a half Mammoth hybrid. This hybrid will be guaranteed to be female, and when she reaches mating age, she is impregnated with a different Mammoth's sperm, repeat one or more times and you get a full fledged Mammoth, and the possibility to reconstitute the species.

If they get their hands on Dodo DNA, they would have to try to clone it FIRST, from that DNA, make a pair, using some unfertilized Emu eggs or something, and then make sure they can mate successfully. A little more complicated, and expensive, actually.

As far as the Tasmanian Wolf, same procedure as the Dodo, unlike Mammoths, the Tasmanian Wolf doesn't have any closely related living relatives. It was a marsupial, so you can't just insert the sperm into a real Wolf and expect success, talk about complicated.