Should We Bring Back EXTINCT ANIMALS? (Pros and Cons) 

Also, the sad part about the thylacine and the woolly mammoth is we will probably have poachers because they will probably be worth a lot, and that's why we can't have nice things

I think it is so hard to find good videos on this topic so I'm so glad I found this. And I have just adored the thylacine since I was little and I'm actually pretty excited about the idea of them coming back. Although I'm kind of bummed that I would probably never see one in my lifetime.

Your last statement of prioritizing the conservation over the bringing back of extinct species and the value that people hold towards endangered species is something I really resonate with. Also, this genetic tampering might actually help resolve and prevent some chronic genetic disorders such as diabetes and types of cancers. This makes investing into this technology totally worth it. As for the bringing back of extinct animals, I personally don't feel any benefit they could provide to the world (except for maybe the tasmanian tiger) and I just want that back for the selfish reasons that is to see how these creatures actually looked like. I love this type of content, and the way you put the video really made it incredibly engaging, so great job man!

It depends how they’re brought about, if they’re genuine clones of the animals say a wolly mammoth, like the dna of actual mammoths that walked the Earth is used id say yes. However If it’s just edited genes of an asiastic elephant with no actual mammoth dna that’s just a mutant asian elephant with no place in the wild or the earth tbh

I am with you on this, but, if they do it right and bring them back in there original habitat, they can rebuild it to what it used to be within a few generations. It would turn woodland back into marsh land, or vise versa, I don't remember how that went, may have been grassland. Well, we'll just have to wait and see, who knows, this may be a great thing for our planet, if done right and responsibly. Don't want a Jurassic Park style problem, just with ice age megafauna.

We should bring back the oldest species.

I agree with the conservation, and it seems that we should also find ways to coexist with nature more.

As much as I'd love to see a wooly mammoth in my lifetime, they have been trying to create a viable embryo for about 20 years or more. I remember in the early 2000's watching the Raise the Mammoth documentary on discovery channel as a teenager. I will believe it when it happens, but. Fantastic video!

We should bring back dinosaurs. I mean, like they existed for 150 million years, making them the longest living species to dominate the earth’s surface.

I'm concerned about the mammoth and climate change. It's habit is already so limited. I want to pretend that a mammoth would give people the idea to change, but that unlikely

That's crazy

This is why our species is destroying the planet like a parasite

Would the Tasmanian devil be endangered because of the Tasmanian tiger

I really like the mammoth tusks...

No I want the wholly rhino, also why not bring back animals that just recently went extinct and protecting animals that are close to extinction

Great video it would be interesting to have to cloned animals such as the mammoth,dodo and thylacine,but it can also be done with other current species by altering their DNA,such as archelon,a close relative of the leatherback turtle, gigantophitecus(orangutan),the ancestors of the whales,the ungulate family and artiodactyls such as hippos,their closest living relatives and that includes other species mixing the DNA of whales with that of ungulates, arsinoitherium altering the DNA of the elephant and mixing it with rhinoceros DNA, sivatherium altering the DNA of okapi,birds of terror altering the DNA of the seriemas and chuñas(birds), megalania altering the DNA of the komodo dragon,hyaenodon altering the DNA of the pangolin, archaeotherium altering the DNA of the hippopotamus,its close relative, cetotherium altering the DNA of the pygmy right whale and finally diprotodon altering the DNA of wombats

Why not introduce some elephants to a temperate climate and have them evolve to through macro evolution to live in cooler environments? It would take a few generation and a lot of time. I’m not sure if they would just die in winter though, but maybe they would start to develop features that would allow them to live in cooler environments over time?

Great video by the way I hope that the mammoth will be resurrected by 2028 and the dodo by 2027 but the question is should we clone prehistoric animals?

About the money-arguments in wich is said “we can also use the money for preservation” I think that can be debunked. Most of the money for cloning animals is actually money from companies that are interested in the applications they could get from producing technologies to clone. It could for example help companies to develop technologies and eventually patents to make more money they couldn’t earn then from putting money into preservation of species. You don’t get new products and with that lucrative patents by putting money into saving of species. Yeah… companies can use protection of animals in a sponsoring-concept but not as a main-mean to make money itself. This makes the money to save species from another source or interest then that of clone development.

9:49 The biggest and most heartbreaking problem is taking the baby woolly mammoth from its mother and killing a bunch of baby animals

There is a reason why those animals went extinct leave them be...besides where does it go from there? It wont stop with extinct animals..

We're not going to see "Wolly Mammoths " by 2027, we're seeing at least one mutated elephant, like we need to breed a lot of mutated elephants. We haven't been able to domestaicate elephants unless something changes. We're not about to make progress on Wolly Mammoths. A better, more plausible idea is to bring back none avian dinosaurs, like a mini t-rex we have birds 🐦, crocodiles 🐊, and dinosaurs bones and fragmented DNA. There's no reason we can't reconstruct a dinosaur from a chicken or a piegon. And unlike elephants 🐘, chickens 🐔 reproduce in a few weeks.

I didn't even think about the permafrost and all that. That is a good point though. I am skeptical, until it is in place and working. If that at all makes sense.

I agree

I late to this but my biggest concern would be the ethics of bringing back these animals would it be ethic to release some of these animals back into the wild if they captive born which they most likely would be this is mainly about the mammoth but it could also apply for the dodo and the Tasmanian tiger these animals might imprint on their caretakers honestly putting them in the wild seems very unethical unless done very carefully also like you mentioned in the video a lot of dead baby animals but even if they do make it to adulthood should they be healthy and sound enough to be put into the wild? Can they hunt forage for themselves? I think since the Tasmanian tiger as dodo went extinct more recently they have a better chance of survival in the wild and thriving the also probably more instinct driven to unlike the wooly mammoth which would need more hands on training how to a wooly mammoth and not a Asian elephant which I would imagine would be difficult since none of us have seen a live wooly mammoth but I do hope all goes well I do think us seeing these animals in 2027 us a bit tooptimistic considering I read a article a few years back when I was in high school that we could have the wooly Mammoth back by 2020 or 2022

I want a pet diplodocus

Original skin owners gon be mad 😤😤😤

It would be cool to bring back some of them. The problem is it will always be about the money. You

we should bring back the happy 60s housewife

There's lot's of thylacine sightings photos and casts of their prints. And many headless wallaby found very regularly. They're prints wouldn't be found if extinct.