You can bring any one extinct lifeform back, what would it be?

[qnr]

Plant, animal (mammal, reptile, marsupial, fowl, anything)

I think I would bring back the pterodactyl (which has probably been renamed, but I'm sure you know what I mean).

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Unicorns

[qnr]

4. Hmmm yeah. Well, I don't think those qualify as extinct, but it's a nice

choice.

[mike_c]

2. passenger pidgeon....

No question.

[qnr]

7. Yeah, that situation always amazed me, as a child

:hi:

[carpetbagger]

20. I presume you meant the extinction of such a numerous species.

Most people are told it was because we shot them all.

It was in reality because the passenger pigeons bred in massive, massive colonies, almost like (actually much more impressive than) seabird colonies or heron rookeries. These things covered hundreds of square miles of forest. The birds would breed in different places, and wander widely across the continent (like certain grosbeaks and crossbills, etc) to follow food sources.

So when the forests got cut down, the passenger pigeon, unlike most other forest birds, were unable to persist in the smaller patches. It was additionally hard for them to keep up becuase their reproductive cycles only got triggered in the presence of large numbers of other passenger pigeons.

[qnr]

23. Yes, the extinction itself, with the tales of whole skies being darkened

with them before that.

[DianeG5385]

3. The founding fathers

Maybe they could straighten this ***t mess we've made!

[qnr]

6. lol, really.

:hi:

[mermaid]

5. MERMAIDS!!!!

n/t

[qnr]

8. Well of course...

:hi:

[democracyindanger]

9. Sure. Just wait until you start dealing with

pterodactyl droppings on your car.

[qnr]

10. true - but I'd love to see its expression as a cat tried to sneak up on it

:hi:

Edit: s/sneek/sneak/

[Historic NY]

11. Honest politician..........

[qnr]

14. I think that goes in the same category as unicorns

:hi:

[BikeWriter]

33. Mythical critters!

[rooboy]

12. Giant Wombat. n/t

[qnr]

13. Why am I suddenly thinking of text adventures?

:hi:

[baldguy]

15. The dodo

The Warner Bros version

[qnr]

17. My first thought... even * needs an avatar/mascot

:hi:

[tyedyeto]

18. Damn, you beat me to it! n/t

[tyedyeto]

16. Little known Dodo bird

[qnr]

19. First thing that comes to mind when I hear "extinction" TBH

:hi:

[baldguy]

22. I like mine better

[tyedyeto]

25. He/she is pretty cool

:yourock:

[undeterred]

21. the great-souled man

:shrug:

[qnr]

27. Well, I wouldn't say they are totally extinct yet, but it would be nice to

bring them back from the brink.

:hi:

[Shadowen]

24. Cro-Magnon man.

So he can slap Creationist twits upside the head with the huge fucking club he'd be carrying.

[qnr]

26. Nice

:hi:

[CanuckAmok]

28. The Cab Calloway.

Also known as "Swingus Eruptus".

I miss him.

[Floogeldy]

29. The Do Do Bird

They said (way back then) that it was better than Turkey or Chicken.

We were ROBBED of the delicacy due to man's stupidity and I am definitely still very pissed off.

}(

[On the Road]

30. The Most Educational Might be Homo Erectus

but I have a soft spot for the mylodon:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megatherium

[mitchum]

31. Good Rolling Stones

[Vektor]

32. Saber tooth tiger!

That is ONE COOL CAT.

[In_The_Wind]

34. the unicorn

or the birds which have become extinct within the last 100 years .... like the Carolina Parakeet.

[BreweryYardRat]

35. Something esoteric...

Andrewsarchus. Huge creodont from the Eocene. Discovery Channel did a rendering of it...




Impressive critter.

[AngryAmish]

36. T-Rex

Would just be pretty cool. BUt hopefully none would run wild free by me.

[asthmaticeog]

37. The Pre-DLC Democrat.

Alas, nature played a cruel prank - when they became mere beaurocratic New-Deal caretakers, their spines evolved away from lack of use, leaving them soft and chewy, and vulnerable to widespread predation.