Too bad this prompt is limited to dinosaurs when there are so many extinct species that aren’t dinosaurs that I find more interesting. Most dinosaurs are too dangerous or too massive to feed on a regular basis to make a resurrection a good idea.
Jurassic Park has been done a few times and I think only a fool would resurrect most of those. Even the passive ones would require a huge habitat and an enormous amount of food. It would make an elephant’s upkeep seem positively budget friendly. And the carnivorous ones, well, that would just be plain stupid.
So, if I had to pick a dinosaur, maybe the ancestor of the birds, Archeopteryx. It is smallish, birdlike and could give us some insight into how early birds may have looked, and could be maintained easily, and be non threatening if it were to get violent or escape.
Now, if we open things up to more than dinosaurs, I have always had a fascination with the Tasmanian Tiger. And, let’s face it, we are responsible for their destruction. It would be great to resurrect at least a few so we can learn about them, and see them. I do not know if we should reintroduce extinct species to the wild, because nature finds a way to replace things.
We would have to get rid of the dingo to put the Tasmanian Tiger there. There isn’t room for both predators. It gets complicated after that. I know there are people including a certain director, Peter Jackson, that want to bring back the New Zealand Moa. That might be doable, I can’t say since it had a specific area and I think people were also the ruin of them. The question is, how can we create enough specimens to have a diverse gene pool so they don’t end up just dying out again?
Should we be doing this ethically? Does this open other doors that should perhaps remain shut? I just don’t know where this leads, but we are certainly cursed with living in very interesting times indeed.
The Infamous Jennisfora Strikes Again...or something like that 