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Should we clone Megalania
Topic Started: Oct 11 2017, 04:15 PM (783 Views)
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peashyjah
Oct 11 2017, 04:24 PM
I don't think so because we already have the Komodo Dragon and that would literally drive the species into extinction.
Megalania is like one of those species you were glad are now extinct.
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how would a revived Megalania drive the Komodos to extinction?
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Oct 11 2017, 11:08 PM
peashyjah
Oct 11 2017, 04:24 PM
I don't think so because we already have the Komodo Dragon and that would literally drive the species into extinction.
Megalania is like one of those species you were glad are now extinct.
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how would a revived Megalania drive the Komodos to extinction?
The Megalania is the ancestor of the Komodo Dragon and they almost lived at the same environment.
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Two species with a similar niche can exist, I don't understand why is there a notion that a entire species would die out by being replaced.
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peashyjah
Oct 12 2017, 06:33 PM
Rodlox
Oct 11 2017, 11:08 PM
peashyjah
Oct 11 2017, 04:24 PM
I don't think so because we already have the Komodo Dragon and that would literally drive the species into extinction.
Megalania is like one of those species you were glad are now extinct.
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how would a revived Megalania drive the Komodos to extinction?
The Megalania is the ancestor of the Komodo Dragon and they almost lived at the same environment.
I'm pretty sure what Rodlox meant is how would Megalania get to Komodo? If they reintroduced it anywhere, they would put it in its native home (I am aware some of those islands north of Australia were once inhabited by Megalania but they aren't suitable anymore so why bother?). They aren't going to resurrect mammoths and stick them in Madagascar, so why put Megalania on Komodo?
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peashyjah
Oct 12 2017, 06:33 PM
Rodlox
Oct 11 2017, 11:08 PM
peashyjah
Oct 11 2017, 04:24 PM
I don't think so because we already have the Komodo Dragon and that would literally drive the species into extinction.
Megalania is like one of those species you were glad are now extinct.
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how would a revived Megalania drive the Komodos to extinction?
The Megalania is the ancestor of the Komodo Dragon and they almost lived at the same environment.
Neither was an ancestor/descendant of the other (they're merely related, sharing a common ancestor) and they didn't live on the same islands.
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I think megalania/Varanus priscus was more rleated to some australian species,ressurectign an species is srisky and from what we know clonation in general eeds a lot of fixing would be a lost of DNAand money to resurect ab abimal that migth die of lung disease in a few hours like what happenned to the pirnean ibex,it was ressurected 9 years after exticntion to die shortly after birth,so in my opinion before ressurting endangered species or extinct animals
we should improve our cloning with sheep and common animals
and I think also that other extinct australain fauna,both megafaunal or more small should be ressurecteed before megalania if we had the cahnce,thylacine amongs them,before ressurrectign megalania we would need to get rid of soem intordued species and reintroduced whatever it ate
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Oct 12 2017, 06:37 PM
Two species with a similar niche can exist, I don't understand why is there a notion that a entire species would die out by being replaced.
Sorry about that too.
I agree with you about two or more species occupying similar ecological niches and You're right about that.
Discontinued projects:
The New Ostracoderms (i might continue with this project again someday)
The Americas (where in 58 million years from now in the future North and South America has both become isolated island continents)



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New Cenozoica (my attempt at expanding the universe of The New Dinosaurs and also a re-imagining of it, also coming 2019 or 2020)
All Alternatives or All Changes (a re-telling of All Tomorrows but with some minor and major "changes", coming June 10, 2018)
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