'>>4767318';

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'>>4767318
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDRY0CmcYNU';

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'>>4767440
what's that supposed to be of';

'>>4767484';

'>>4767365
Beard?';

'>>4767411
How the fuck was it possible to make this breed die out?';

'>>4767411
>>4767613

The Passenger Pigeon was (supposedly) aggressively aggregate and did everything as a group: they flew, nested, and brooded, raised their young, all communally, they even reproduced via group sex. Their species literally could not exist as individuals, so after a certain number of them perished it created a cascading effect.
Habitat loss, specifically deforestation, was also particularly devastating to them. They had the extremely poor luck of preferring the forests around the Great Lake area, so basically the literal only place where people in Canada AND America actually lived in great quantity.';

'>>4767364
>Chinese
I can tell.';

'>>4767607
What is that thing?';

'Up until maybe the 15th century, China would've had fuck-off huge gharials swimming around. At least until the chinks killed them all.
>stories from ye olde china tell of beheading giant crocs and preserving their heads.
>fossils of said giant crocs are found with injuries that exactly match these descriptions.
>one croc killed a child so they then immediately ordered the soldiers to hunt down and kill a fuckload of them';

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'>>4767677
>>one croc killed a child so they then immediately ordered the soldiers to hunt down and kill a fuckload of them
Following that logic, all escalators and construction vehicles in China should be hunted to extinction.';

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'>>4767677
These deserve to be brought back';

'>>4767681
>all escalators and construction vehicles in China should be hunted to extinction.
don’t forget the constantly collapsing buildings and exploding refrigerators too';

'>>4767607
>>4767484
>what's that supposed to be of';

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'Nobody posted this yet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDRY0CmcYNU';

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'https://youtu.be/ofyaNuYz19Q?si=MAnD9RoI8ijtF5ul
The extinction of the laysan honeycreeper and pals. The caretaker/ guano mining supervisor of Laysan atoll introduced rabbits as a food source and entertainment for his kids. Sea turtle/ albatross/ monk seal meat was gettiing repetitive according to him. The rabbits then reproduced and ate all the vegetation on the atoll. This led to the extinction of the laysan millerbird, which fed on bugs hiding in the vegetation. The local extinction of the flightless laysan rail for similar reasons. The near extinction of the laysan teal with only 4 surviving individuals. The laysan honeycreepers also nearly all starved to death prior to filming due to being nectar feeders. The last three were filmed when the crew from the Tanager Expedition arrived on the island. Days later, a three day sandstorm was kicked up due to the lack of vegetation holding down the sand. The birds were never seen again.';

'https://youtu.be/ldjCtaG7JOA?si=R-fODgXMuBD5-_hg
The laysan rail survived until ww2 as researchers had transplanted a population on Midway atoll further down the island chain. Due to the rush to prepare Midway for WW2, there wasn't really any quarantine procedure to prevent pests from getting onto the island. Rats apparently got off of naval vessels and ate the last remaining birds. That's how Hawaii's last flightless native bird species went extinct. What's worse is that researchers saw it coming and tried to save them. They even told their supervisors that all they needed was an 8 square meter enclosure for housing two pairs. They were denied permits sighting the risk of introducing another species, the laysan finch, to the main Hawaiian Islands. Something about worrying that it might damage crops. It was completely asinine as how the hell would you accidentally transport a breeding population of a whole other species of bird. Moreover, laysan finches were also endangered and weren't even known crop pests. This was pure ass pull from the guy in charge of the department at the time. Even more damning was that laysan finches were super susceptible to avian malaria, which was present in the main Hawaiian islands. This meant that any stowaways would likely die immediately upon arrival. Just to spit on the grave, fossil evidence later showed that laysan finches were present on the main Hawaiian islands in the past. The population on Laysan was a relict that survived up until present day.
The researcher in charge later wrote multiple letters to the department head blaming him for the extinction.';

'>>4767740
Saw a documentary of a de-extinction program where scientists were trying to recreate the Tasmanian Tiger through genetic modification of another native species related to the tiger.
I thought it was quite interesting but I also got conflicted. The genetic lineage of the Tasmanian Tiger is broken, what are these people trying to (re)create? Will it be a real Tasmanian Tiger if they succeed? Or will it merely be a creature that has the looks of a tiger? And what purpose would it fulfill? Can it be let out in nature again and function like a normal tiger? If it can't will it be destined to live in breeding programs and zoos?

The more I thought about it the more I felt like it was just a selfish human act to recreate something, not for the tiger, but for ourselves and that made me feel very conflicted about the whole thing.

How do you guys feel about de-extinction? I think it can be an interesting topic.';

'For being the face of extinction as a whole, we sure have jack and shit of it left, don't we?';

'Not there yet, but almost';

'>>4767814
These things had like 12 remaining specimen for decades, starting to feel like their conservation is a grift.';

'>>4767607
wow that clears things up, it's a smudge';

'>>4767753
Already has actually. It's almost obligatory.';

'>>4767607
A llama?
The average bigfoot photo is less blurry.';

'>>4767690
Could be possible within our lifetime depending on what we have perserved.';

'>>4767361
Was this a type of sturgeon?';

'>>4767781
tasmanian tigers have zero living relatives
they formed a taxonomical family of their own';

'>>4767484
>>4767671
It looks like a terror bird.';

'>>4768242
But it isn't one.';

'>>4768242
Pretty sure it's supposed to be a sauropod. So it was probably also supposed to be a joke, but you can never really know on this board.';

'>>4767677
There also was a fully aquatic gharial from Papua New Guinea that got extinct during the Holocene. We lost a lot of unique crocodilians that could still be there.';

'>>4768188
Sturgeon are the most closely related to paddlefish, yes. This is the last extant species.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_paddlefish';

'>>4767756
Imagine the sheer helplessness these birds felt as their world completely changed. Probably more of a brutal extinction event than being hunted down to the lasts specimen';

'>>4767740
no longer extinct, an evil necromancer brought them back';

'>>4767742
>>4767333
>extinct bugs
other than bees who gives a rat’s fucking ass, just wipe out all bugs besides ants and bees';

'>>4767763
The wrong species went extinct in WWII.';

'>>4768416
They're pretty important for the echo system desu';

'>>4768420
I don’t think they are. Flies can stay I guess because they clean up carcasses. And dung beetles on the Savannah. The bugs that scoot across the water can stay too, and dragonflies because they eat those little scooters. Everything else can fucking go. Useless pests. Anything that eats bugs can either switch to exclusively eating ants and dragonflies or maybe regular flies or fucking die out too. Fuck em.';

'>>4768246
The lighting on that thing is fucked even with the naked eye kek';

'>>4768424
>I don’t think
Yeah that is clear';

'>>4767333
ewwwwww squish it';

'>>4767814
>>4767815
At this point, it feels like they're not dying purely out of sheer spite.';

'>>4768424
>I don’t think they are. Flies can stay I guess because they clean up carcasses. And dung beetles on the Savannah. The bugs that scoot across the water can stay too, and dragonflies because they eat those little scooters. Everything else can fucking go. Useless pests. Anything that eats bugs can either switch to exclusively eating ants and dragonflies or maybe regular flies or fucking die out too. Fuck em.';

'>>4768196
I don't remember exactly what animal they used but it was some kind of mousey looking marsupial.
But my point was more about de-extinction rather than the exact details regarding this animal.';

'>>4768252
Main issue with trying to bring back extinct species of Crocodilians especially is that sooner or later they'll most likely re-evolve.
Just give them a niche to fill with no competition and bam.';

'>>4768613
Yeah but that goes for any niche. It just takes millions of years to happen. Millions of years which humans most likely would impede on regardless, assuming we havent ditched or trashed this rock by then.';

'>>4768424
Dragonflies are cool though.';

'>>4767613
You could just walk into their colonies with a club and a bag and take them. They didn't taste good and their feathers weren't anything special, but they were free and easy so there you go. Hunted down to the last, coupled with colony collapse like >>4767630 said.';

'>The species declined in the course of the 20th century, mainly because of habitat destruction, entanglement with monofilament gillnets and predation by the introduced blotched snakehead.
>Also, the few remaining birds increasingly hybridized with little grebes; as the species differed in several key aspects, the hybrid birds may have suffered from decreased fitness.';

'>>4768424
You're seriously underestimating how big a part of the ecosystem insects are. They're the most common form of life on the planet, the biggest part of the food chain, and absolutely essential for pollination. Eliminate them and everything goes.';

'>>4767754
Feel like pure shit rn just want her back';

'>>4767754
based
https://youtu.be/6YsNRnZRgg8';

'>>4768603
Oh look, it's the MAGA bird';

'>>4768617
>It just takes millions of years to happen.
I don’t think the timescale is quite that massive. Adaptations can happen surprisingly quickly.';

'>>4767681
nowadays they dont care about children, nothing would happen';

'>>4768789
>This is Jeb's board, shill.';

'>>4767361
>>4767364
>my fellow asian aquatic animals...';

'>>4767681
>>4767716
Wouldn't work, the Chinese can kill and eat anything vaguely organic, however because of this escalators and the like evolved into the perfect predator of the Chinese. Simply put, no matter how enraged-im not sure the Chinese could defeat an escalator, save for cooking it to death like bees and the wasp';

'>>4767373
So apparently following an alleged sighting in 2019, someone found a strand of hair tangled in a plantation's fence. Some DNA tests with existing pelts seem to confirm that it was a Javan tiger's hair. It's very possible that this fucker could still be milling about somewhere.';

'>>4771842
That's a conspiracy theory';

'>>4767318
that image is fake its a toy lion in a mini set';

'>>4767440
its a very shitty photoshop of the Jurassic park Brachiosaurus into a generic landscape shot';

'>>4768252
dont forget the new caladonian land croc';

'>>4771872
Anon, they literally only announced it last week. Unless you're confusing Javan tigers with Tasmanian tigers.';

'>>4771941
How do you misspell "new caledonia" twice like that? You HAVE to have seen it written down before...';

'>>4771842
Not exactly they did a DNA test on the hair matched most closely to that of a Sumatran tiger. not that its a javan tiger, with the weird fucky genetics of Panthera as a genus it could still turn out to be a Javan leopard they just recovered a bit of the genome where leopards and tigers are near identical.';

'>>4771943
because I'm retarded, anon';

'>>4767613
Literal dynamite';

'>>4767781
They aren’t genetically modifying other animals to look like a thylacine. They have actual thylacine DNA to clone. Big difference.';

'>>4772024
Oh, I think I might have misunderstood something then, I thought they talked about not having live DNA so they had to find a different approach, so they were trying to match it to the DNA of the tiger by starting off with the animal that has the most similar DNA.
That's what I remember from the documentary, I'll see if I can find it online somewhere.';

'>>4771842
I’m just gonna go ahead and call bullshit on the Javan Tiger still being out there. From my understanding the amount of habitat and prey left is minimal, humans have been looking for it pretty hard, and this is a bit of supposition on my part but tigers are apex predators and known to be pretty fucking loud in asserting their territory. I have a client that was in Vietnam (different subspecies I know) and they would literally roar obnoxiously after every fire fight in the jungle trying to get the humans to fuck off.';

'>>4772025
My understanding was that it’s similar to Jurassic Park where they’re just filling in a few blank spots in the genetic coding and they’re looking at other marsupials to marginally help fill that niche. The samples aren’t so bad they’re splicing in wallaby DNA or anything though.';

'>>4772029
Yeah at this point Java is too developed and populated to support tigers. And unless you can make all the rice farms, logging operations, and everything else close shop, it's going to stay that way.';

'>>4772032
Ah you are probably right, I don't know enough about that side of the story anyway.
Though I am mostly interested in the moral aspect of it, is it even realistic, if scientists succeed, that the animal will continue to live in nature again? Will there be a suitable "natural" habitat or will we doom the creature to zoos and breeding programs?
Just some thoughts that crossed my mind.';

'>>4772152
>Ugly bird goes extinct
>"I want to murder children"
just let my cat out, no cap';

'>>4771939
Source? Not doubting since the lion does look a little off, just skeptical';

'>>4768424
That's a lot of words to say "I'm purposefully being an obtuse retard" but you do you.';

'>>4767781
Who cares about nature? The only reason these animals are allowed to exist at all is that they amuse/benefit humans.';

'>Monarch in his enclosure at Golden Gate Park. The last California grizzly bear in captivity, Monarch died in 1911. He was the model for California's bear flag';

'>>4772163
Feral dog-chad: Hola, chica';

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'>>4772143
There’s plenty of natural habitat they could put one in they just need to control the dog population and not shoot every thylacine they see like they did in the 1800s. Rewilding would be a long process that will take decades. Mostly just zoo exhibits.
>>4772195
I can’t wait for grizzly bears to start fucking up Californians.';

'>>4772163
>ugly
I blame the bad camera quality and the singing pose. Their closest living relatives are super pretty.';

'>>4767371
What’s sad about these guys is that the Kauai O’o was the last member of its entire taxonomic family. I think it’s the only time in modern history an entire family of species went extinct. It was a neat family too. They were thought to be a Hawaiian endemic family of Pacific/ southeast Asian honey eaters because that’s what they looked/ behaved like. Turns out that they were an offshoot of Central American tanagers that evolved to fill the exact same niche in Hawaii to the point it took posthumous genetic testing to figure it out.';

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>>4767681
>That organ blood color and gorgeous shine
I wish i could have this as a pet';

'>>4768259
God's plan.';

'>>4768677

>Yuo vill eat ze bugz und vill be vergnügt';

'>>4772240

Not every animal is worth saving, Anon.
Ever heard of resilience?

If their existence relies on a thread of moral lucks, then, there's not a consequence of them really dying, since God would also want that.
Doctor William Lane Craig said something about dying children and it stuck with me.';

'>>4772152
>>4772240
The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.';

'>>4772195
https://youtu.be/efNtliiyT3M?t=1333';

'>>4772240
lemme guess youre ridin with biden?';

'>>4767318
the barbary lion isnt extinct thoughever';

'>>4774475
When a retarded schizophrenic citing quotes from a penis chopping death cult is closer to common sense than you, and you're closest to some sort of militant buddhist, you fucked up.';

'>>4767743
Carolina Parakeet :(';

'>>4768416
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Mountain_Locust?useskin=vector
If I could die in exchange for one wish it would be bringing these back and immune to pesticides';

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'>>4768789
>rent free';

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'>>4767364
>if only you knew how bad things really are';

'>>4775856
My quagga';

'>>4767791
What were they like behavior wise?';

'>>4768603
Sick fu manchu';

'>>4767742
only species itt that deserved it
still crazy to think about it thought';

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'>>4776596
Filename made me lol';

'>>4776596
Given how god awful normal Marabous are, I fucking dread to imagine one of these things alive.';