What extinct species would you clone if you were a billionaire?

What species would you clone if you were a billionaire?

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DavidBrown

DavidBrown

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If you were a billionaire which species would you most like to clone and bring back to the world?

This is mainly an experiment to create a poll, but I am interested in your opinion.
 
Please feel free to add "write in" votes for any species that I didn't include in the poll above (I could only put in 10 species).

The giant lemurs of Madagascar, elephant birds, ground sloths, glyptodonts, diprotodons, marsupial leopards, and many other species could go on the list.

I didn't add anything older than the Pleistocene because there is at least a small chance of getting DNA from some of these species.
 
I notice that only two of the species you chose (mammoth and Megalania) wouldn't really fit back into the modern world. All the others could slot back into their ecological niches fairly easily (well, maybe not passenger pigeon....Americans and their guns....;))
 
From the list I plumbed for the Mammoth vote. Given the wide free choice I would go for a Woolly Rhinoceros myself.


(As an eccentric billionaire I would also attempt to bring back the Norwegian Blue Parrot) :D
 
Thylacine all the way, doubt Australia would let me leave the country with it though... :p
 
I vote Mammoth as it is the one species on the list that will have a huge impact on environmental restoration.
 
Steller's sea cow - we owe it to them as they have the dubious distinction of being the animals known to science for the shortest time before being hunted to extinction.

I don't know where you are hoping to get all this DNA from though!
 
jbnbsn99 said:
Couldn't we do better than Elvis? John Lennon, Louis Armstrong, Beethoven?
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Freddie Mercury, Da Vinci, Einstein?

But I would love to see the pygmy mammoths. I just want to see little mammoths wandering europe :')

Or Moas or elephant birds! That would be nice to see around the place.
 
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