Extinct tortoise to be brought back to life

The planet would be much better off without us. We are the problem.

This is nice. Hope our children are around to see it.

Honestly, when WILL we learn that it's not a good idea to fuck with Mother Nature? Bad, bad, bad idea!

Since they become extinct where is there ecological niche going to be its filled by a newer species correct or was the extinction due to homo sapiens?

I like turtles, so of course this is good news for me.

Science is actually touching my moral barriers. If they're extinct, they're extinct for a reason, why tamper with it.

Maybe we shouldn't have let them go extinct in the first place?

Lets bring it back! and the we can kill it again! for ever.

Dinosaurs, Stalin and Hitler are Nexttt!!! Everyone Panic!

NOW THAT'S a great use of breeding technique. Making a dog into a bulldog so he's all fat and unhealthy is the usual use... Great work doing something right this time.

if you people are opposed to this then you guys shouldn't eat corn, because cross-breeding strains of corn over centuries is how our present 'kansas cob' was created.

If things do go Jurassic Park, all you'd really need to do was walk quickly and you'd be okay (they're effing turtles). Let's just hope they don't mutate into Gamera.

You know, when so many people refuse to believe and understand that which is right under their eyes, provable and demonstrable; science, and yet put total faith in a great fat floating Santa in the sky who will save us from ourselves and still love us, well, I have to think extinction is part of God's plan, he just didn't tell us we would be the extinct ones.

i hope they keep these turtles in a zoo or something similar because if they were reintroduced to the wild their natural predators will over populate

or it will be like the situation with those big ass frogs in Australia

He brought Jesus back.

WHAT WOULD GOD SAY?

Why are they doing this? Just because they can?

If an animal goes extinct, there is a reason for it, even if that reason is us. The planet adapts to this missing species and replaces it with something else. By re-inserting this extinct species, we will be messing with that delicate balance, and that's not a good thing.

This is how it starts...

while i agree that bringing a t-rex back to life all Spielberg style is probably not the best idea. what the hell is a tortoise going to hurt? the leaves it eats? we're not talking a man eating monster, heck we're simply discussing the idea of bringing a herbivore back to life. i think its cool. can they do this for all of the frogs that are about to go extinct too?

I think it is perfectly all right to bring back a species that we [humanity] pushed to extinction. Nature didn't select them; we exterminated them, over-hunted them.

http://www.gct.org/tortoise.html

If we, as a species, have the power to both end another species and bring a species back from the void, then why the hell shouldn't we be righting wrongs we've committed? Why does the former go on wholesale, while the latter is condemned as somehow "immoral?"
Strange.
Bring this one back.

wasn't there a movie like this? i don't think it turned out to well in the end. maybe they ought to call steven speilberg and reconsider.

I think it would be near impossible to bring dinosaurs back - at least at the size that they were. Oxygen levels back then were around 35%, and now it's at 19%.

isn't their extinction a part of evolution? it's scary territory. we're not god and neither is charles darwin.

Let me preface this by saying I don't believe in "God", but to play devils advocate, if there were a god wouldn't extinction be part of his master plan? Guess we'll find out if there is some new mutation of the Salmonella virus that spawns from the tortoise's re-existence.

Jurassic Park!

I would be glad for this to happen! We owe all of this to all of the animals who have gone extinct because of humans.