Which extinct species would you like to see brought back? (via

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My most reasonable candidate for de extinction is the dodo. They seem like cool fellas.
Dream animals would be that marine gharial from New Guinea, those terrestrial crocs from Fiji, and the meiolaniane turtles. Throw in megalania while you're at it, it's never happening anyway.

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>>2421916
Another candidate is the Moa. It only became extinct in the 1400s and there are lots of surviving remnants (eggs, tissues etc.) . There's probably a more realistic chance of cloning them as opposed to mammoths

>>2421916

yeh dodos sound nice. They sound like animals that humans normally love, it weird that we wiped them out

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qt monster sloth

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>>2422622
>>2422622
>humans
don't blame everyone

>>2422625
if only they could have held out another 5000 years :[

>>2421928
why aren't we funding this

>>2421916
Man, the fact that someone painted an entire picture with a simple dodo as focus is amazing.

Symbolic af as for their fate, with the caravel in the background

>>2421906
>Which extinct species would you like to see brought back?

which one do you think tastes good?

>>2422625
damn Anakin looks like *THAT*!?

>>2422625
Since we've had Megatherium already how about Tyto pollens aka The Chickcharney. It was an extremely large flightless barn owl that liked to pop out and spook you.

>>2422599
Dodo's were opposed to many other animals not very smart. Whilst pigeons and any other kind of bird would fly away when a human came close, the Dodo would curiously come towards humans. Thus they were driven to extinction on the spit.

Dinosaurs

>>2422834
So, another vote for dodos

>>2422820
"Curiosity is a symptom of stupidity"

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sabrecat

Mammoths ofc. My ancestors came here for the sole purpose of hunting them, I feel I'm warranted to eat at least one mammoth in my life.

>>2422937
They just if not more likely came for the bison, horses, and reindeer. All animals that are alive and well in food production.

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>>2421906
American lion.I hate deer.

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>>2421906

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>>2421906
>>2423200
Also these majestic beasts

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Brontoscorpio

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Unicorn.
Either the unicorn or the Ivory Billed Woodpecker, but preferably the unicorn.

>>2422820
You can't really blame them. Dodos didn't have any predators. They had literally no reason to be afraid.

>>2423314

How could something so plump not have predators?

>>2422820
We hunted a bird that wasn't afraid of us but rather attracted to us. Could have been a pet too. FeelsBadMan

>>2423331
>Could have been a pet too
I'm surprised they didn't end up that way. Were they horrifically smelly or something?

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Frog DNA Raptors

for uhhh... military application... not because blue a qt

>>2423326
islands, my man. There was a native constrictor who sometimes ate hatchlings, but I think that went extinct, too.

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Would domestication save animals?
It's so weird to think after thousands of years of working with elephants and cheetahs that they have never been domesticated. It seems like such a waste.
Although there have been domesticated species that have gone extinct.

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>>2422820
Sounds sort of like the Striated Caracara. They are a bird from the Falklands. Apparently one of, if not the smartest of the birds of prey, but are known to be almost fearless of humans and can be caught by a net.

>>2423332
I think I remember reading somewhere that they tasted fucking awful, I'm sure they stank too

>>2423785
They are pigeons so I doubt they were unpleasant tasting.

>>2423797
the dutch recorded that they had a bland taste and that the also now extinct Mauritius tortoises tasted better
maybe not bad, but not exactly high praise

>>2423202
aurochs?

>>2423314
Fucking this, why do people shit on Dodos and call them stupid? They have no flight reflex.

>>2423773
NOW LOOK AT THIS NET

>>2423503
>Although there have been domesticated species that have gone extinct.
Which ones?

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Gigantopithecus please.

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This

>>2423503
elephants didn't get domesticated because their pregnancy is super long

>>2423331
fucking spaniards
as if creating mestizos wasn't bad enough

>>2424975
it was the Dutch, retard
make an attempt next time

>>2422662
The entire might of the Australian army was defeated by Emu's, imagine what would happen if we brought back Moa's...

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I would love to see one of these half of a billion year old creature. Everyone obsesses over the dinosaurs but the cambrian animals need some love.

>>2424975
Are you dumb, the spaniards didn't even remotely go anywhere near the indian ocean

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We need more god tier Neanderthal genes

>>2422657
What.

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>>2425232
tfw no Neanderthal waifu

>>2422625
It'll taste like ass, be extremely difficult to kill and eat all your crops.

Fuck that.

>>2423855
You seem to have answered your own question.

>>2423905

You want to bring back a critter that's almost as smart as man, has an opposable thumb and is 10 times stronger than it's nearest relative, which is ALREADY 10 times stronger than a human?

No. Just...no.

>>2423955
Umm...why?

>>2425377
is that Shakira?

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All units we have an animal disturbance on 5th and Main

>>2425388
*shoots with shotgun*

Not so strong now

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>>2425232
>>2425377
Neanderthal compared to an early sapiens sapiens.

I do believe that the collective memory of Neanderthals found its way into various legends and myths, for example as the dwarves in various Nordic sagas.
They fit the description just perfectly.

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>>2425502

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>>2425503

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>>2425506

>>2425377
>"I'm on tonight you know my hips don't lie
And I'm starting to feel it's right
All the attraction, the tension
Don't you see baby, this is perfection"

>>2425388
It's not as smart as man, relax. It's also not that big

>>2425498
Neanderthals actually got extinct in Scandinavia first, so I doubt that.

>>2423773
Most raptors can be caught in a net.

>>2423958
Only about twice as long as a horse's, right?

>>2425498
>Dwarves
>fit the description of Neanderthals perfectly
Idk man I never heard of Neanderthals smithing anything other than rocks and bone, they might not be talented enough to hammer gold into wire as thin as hair or a spear that always strikes on target

>>2425114
o fug :DDD

>>2425574
If it's more than one year, it messes up your crop cycles. Horses can go around that because they can eat stored hay, which elephants dislike.

>>2425388
What the fuck are you talking about? We would just stick it in a nice box to be viewed by the public.

>>2425498
I agree with you that memory of Neanderthals probably made its way into our legends, but like these anons >>2425567 >>2425579 said, its probably not Norse legends.

Any old story about man-shaped cave-dwelling monsters could have its base in Neanderthals. We'll probably never know how the interactions between our two species actually played out, but it seems pretty likely that it was a millennia-long conflict in Europe as we outcompeted them and pushed them to the fringes of the continent.

>>2421916
>megalania
Jesus fuck WHY literally their only prey would be humans at this point since there's no megafauna left there.

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wooly rhinos

>>2425990
The word troglodyte comes to mind

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*blocks ur flight paths*

>>2425992
"it's never happening anyway"
lizards are cool, and it's just a wishlist

>>2425232
>>2425377
>>2425498
>>2425499
>>2425501
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>>2425506
>>2425510
On one hand it would've been real interesting to have another hominid species to share Earth with, on the other... I'm sure you guys know what our species is capable of.

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>>2421906
The pug

The unfucked normal pugs which don't exist anymore

>>2422753
Mammoth, huge super fatty meat.

Dodo probably tasted good too

>no haasts eagle
Y'all niggas need Jesus

>>2427012
Raptor Jesus

I want a Neanderthal mate

>>2427003
>extinct species
>species
>pug
really makes you think

>>2427272
It amuses me that a male pug can still breed with a wolf

/r/ing knowledge of spookyborbs. Did they all descend from a common ancestor? What was that ancestor like? Could it fly or was it literally just a feathered dinosaur?

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>>2427278
forgot pic

>>2427274
it frightens me to be honest
I don't even want to think about the abominations it could create

>>2427283
I saw a pug mixed with a bulldog at the Shelter on Saturday
Honestly it just looked like a giant pug
it was kind of scary but she was very sweet

>>2427286
>a giant pug
I would be scared too

>>2427278
>Did they all descend from a common ancestor?

the elephant bird and the moa were close to our modern paleognathae, phorusrhacos' nearest living relative is the seriema and the dodo's is the nicobar pigeon. diatryma was related to waterfowl.

>>2427278
This is missing the giant geese from australia

>>2427279
"Diornis" doesn't exist. It's Dinornis, and it's another genre of Moa.

>>2425251
It's just a bird anon.
A bird that ate fucking horses.

To be fair though, the horses were adorably small back then.

>>2425498
>Neanderthal
>Isn't even tall

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Galapagos tortoise

>They are so extraordinarily large and fat, and so sweet, that no pullet eats more pleasantly

My mouth is just watering from this description

Hope they clone some so I can get a chance to eat some

>>2423955
Nah let's keep this one extinct

>>2427736
how would they do as pets?

>>2427736
It would probably takes like lobster crossed with frog
also its so big
dam

>>2422820
We saw a bird that was practically already domesticated, and instead of thinking, "hey, let's catch these things and raise them as livestock" we just killed all of them. Was it really the dodo who was stupid?

>>2428107
>pretty much chickens but they taste like crap
Might as well just raise chickens, pragmatically speaking. Except we didn't bring chickens this time, or we want to save them for a while, and these big stupid birds are rubbing up on us, might as well eat them and save the chickens for later.

The sea is vast, there are sure to be more of these fowl somewhere.

>>2425377
samena mane EEEE EEE
Waka Waka EE EEE

>>2422652
Sweet ride.

>>2422896
How do they close their mouths, no wonder they dies

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Can't imagine these causing too much issue in the modern world
Leedsicthys are just big whale sharks

Dire Wolves, and then immediately start working to domesticate them.

Small dog breeds are shit

>>2429929
Would there even be enough small fish and plankton, though?

ARE there enough? I genuinely don't know

>>2429992
I'm assuming that because large whales and whale sharks haven't starved off yet, that maybe Leeds could manage but who knows

>>2425388
If they are so smart why did they die?

>dodo birds were curious, docile, and friendly towards humans
>they were gentle and had nothing to fear or hate since they had no predators
>humans took advantage of this and killed them all
>they are now a symbol of stupidity and their name is used as an insult

Really makes you think.

>>2423905
>implying it's extinct

>>2423955
living conveyor belt

>>2430327
they never existed

>>2422661
These guys look quite similar to calicoctheerum (or whatever they're spelled like)

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>>2425498
homo sapiens and homo neanderthalensis fucking each other is the reason why homo sapiens found an easy way to obtain lighter skin color and therefor a way to survive in the northern hemisphere.

white skin color ironically is the product of true race mixing.

>>2429900
Their teeth just came out by the side. Like walruses or elephants.

>>2430656
That's because they are chalicotheres.

>>2431442
We have no idea on what you just said.

>>2425232

they're still around, except now they've found their niche as phys ed teachers and sports coaches

>>2429929

>bird dolphins interacting with mammal dolphins

that would be pretty sweet

>>2422657
>>2422652
>chocobo's were real.
Well shit

>>2431599
he was talking about the fish, and even the ichthyosaurs pictured were reptiles

>>2425388
Reddit. Just...Reddit

>>2431609

>>2431609

i know, but another species of oversized plankton hoover to join the rest isn't as exciting as a third type of rape torpedo, in addition to sharks and dolphins

>>2431442
Nope.White skin only appeared in Europe thousands of years after the last Neanderthal died,
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/04/how-europeans-evolved-white-skin
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>>2425510
>>2425506
>>2425503
>>2425502
>>2425501
>>2425499
>>2425498
>>2425377
>>2425232
>Average height 5'45-5'6
They learned.

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big guy

>>2425502
you just KNOW

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>>2433645
stellar's sea cow
A manatee relative the size of a small whale, driven to extinction due to the unfortunate combination of being totally placid and apparently delicious
and unfortunately people in the 1700's didn't really posses the means to farm an aquatic animal this large.

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>>2433653
>discovered in 1741 and extinct by 1768
>driven extinct within 30 years of being discovered

How fucking tasty were they? what the fuck

>>2433656
>>2433653
this is why I want to go whaling

>>2425388
>being this stupid
What are high powered rifles?

>>2430411
They got their reputation back when people knew uncritically accepting outsiders was a disaster waiting to happen

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Arcotherium probably, fucking huge.
If not, any of the Synapsids.

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Talbot

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>>2421906
I'm all for that!

>>2423955
no thank you

>>2427742
I second that motion

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obscure af but i'd really like to see a notornis alba. idk i love swamphens

>>2433714
so create it so we can kill it?

>>2423955
fuck... can you imagine breeding these things for their eggs? we'd solve the horrid conditions of chicken farms problem if we can eat giant centipede eggs.

>>2422896
Seconded
Any type of big cats overall

>>2422625
>>2422625
these fuckers are still around and they have small trunk like appendage on their face

>>2431761
THICC