Extinct animal, fully resurrected by cloning. Options

[heyo-captain-jac...]

The Pyrenean ibex, a form of wild mountain goat, was officially declared extinct in 2000 when the last-known animal of its kind was found dead in northern Spain.

Shortly before its death, scientists preserved skin samples of the goat, a subspecies of the Spanish ibex that live in mountain ranges across the country, in liquid nitrogen.

Using DNA taken from these skin samples, the scientists were able to replace the genetic material in eggs from domestic goats, to clone a female Pyrenean ibex, or bucardo as they are known. It is the first time an extinct animal has been cloned.

Sadly, the newborn ibex kid died shortly after birth due to physical defects in its lungs. Other cloned animals, including sheep, have been born with similar lung defects.

But the breakthrough has raised hopes that it will be possible to save endangered and newly extinct species by resurrecting them from frozen tissue.

It has also increased the possibility that it will one day be possible to reproduce long-dead species such as woolly mammoths and even dinosaurs.

Full story here.

[Maccabee]

I do often wonder if its not all bad and its only science but by cloning living things man is trying to take the place of God by making life.
Also in what seems to be a very unatural proccess and not the way god meant it to be.

[Tramatize]

I do often wonder if its not all bad and its only science but by cloning living things man is trying to take the place of God by making life.
Also in what seems to be a very unnatural process and not the way god meant it to be.

Not necessarily taking the place of "god" but more or less doing what "god" won't and hasn't done, which is let certain species die off.

[Maccabee]

Not necessarily taking the place of "god" but more or less doing what "god" won't and hasn't done, which is let certain species die off.

You mean God has let species die off?
I think its just part of nature. Maybe if humans had taken care of the earth better as God commanded it wouldnt happen but it life.
If man hadnt sinned God wouldn't have sent the flood which gave us seasons.

Mitosis is cell division.

When the Earth was made over several million, or possibly billion years, it was nothing but a cloud of poison.

And what about Parthenogenesis? There are a decent number of animals that use parthenogenesis. And budding, and other forms of natural cloning.

Saying artificial cloning is wrong is like saying artificial light is wrong, because they aren't natural, or what "God" intended.

You could be right! Just in my opinion something seems strange about it?!

Man makes life all the time. It's where babies come from.

Anyway, this is really, really, cool. I think it's great that they could (potentially) use this to help save endangered species or to bring back Littlefoot.

Exactly but cloning isnt natural. reproduction through "sex" is.
But its just my opinion! Maybe man is meant to do it to help preserve the life God made.