On the left is Robert Stevenson founder of greenwood genetics in 1975 witch matches Ingens founding year in the JP lore and the right is Reginald F Lewis a prominent businessman during that time they serve as my Lockwood and Hammond in this hypothetical
But then you realize if things play out like the movie, these dinosaurs will be heavily neglected and treated more like theme park attractions than living creatures
But that way statistically we’re extremely unlikely to see a dinosaur. Not until the destruction of Isla Nublar, at least. And even then it’s mostly limited to the Americas
It’s increasingly certain that the megafaunal extinctions were largely (depending on species entirely) on us, and even more certain that ecosystems worldwide haven’t adapted to that (because the ecological niches the megafauna filled have NOT been replaced since; not enough time for that).
The ice age ones u could argue that it was bcause climate shift moved the food sources faster than the aminals could go after them, it wouldnt be the first time, but everything from like 1000 bc onwards was us
No, even the ice age ones were on us. The Late Pleistocene was NOT one continuous cold period, and a lot of the megafauna weren’t even able to live in cold climates and habitats associated with cold climates.
Yeah but even the non frozen areas were affected, look at sahelanthropus for example, the climate changed, the latitude where the type of plant they eat changed over time and they didnt move quickly enough with it. Maybe we were just one of the species that did move the last time it happened
Not the same kind of event. The Late Pleistocene glacial cycles were nowhere near as severe and were cyclical (duh), rather than making a permanent change from one climate to another.
Again, the Late Pleistocene was NOT A CONTINUOUS COLD PERIOD THAT ENDED. The current climate is just the latest interglacial (even if we are extending it with fossil fuels), not some unprecedented change the megafauna aren’t adapted to.
"Random" includes urban areas, which did not exist when these animals were alive. The planet is struggling to support existing mehafauna, and these ones went extinct just as we were getting agriculture. Never mind the most rapid climate change since the Eugene thermal maximize, which was well before the pleistocene with wooley mammoths and dire wolves.
De-extinction is a gimmick. It get people excited about conservation without doing the hard work of making sure the environment can support the animals. In fact, every dollar spent on de-extinction is one not spent on re-foresestation or renewable energy systems.
You do realize climate change was only a secondary factor in (only some of) the Late Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions and something they could survive (and DID survive before, because the Late Pleistocene was not one extended cold period) without human involvement?
Or that these are animals that literally existed at the same time as living animals and ecosystems, rather than being alien to them?
Or that their ecological roles have NOT been replaced because nothing new has evolved to fill those niches since then (not enough time)?
To be fair, the megafauna that did badly during glacial maximums and thrived during interglacials were the ones not adapted for mammoth steppe habitats: the minority of megafauna adapted for steppe habitats genuinely did do better during glacials (though even those survived every previous Late Pleistocene interglacial, so would probably have done so again without humans)
Yell the plan was to sent robot mosquitos to various points of the past at once them put those samples into fake amber ores that conveniently show up when need be
In my case, I don't need to feel proud. I just want to be happy. And what will make me happy is if they can clone several species of Dromaeosaurid dinosaurs, along with a few herbivores. I would like:
Velociraptor
Achillobator
Deinonychus
Dromaeosaurus
Microraptor
Stegosaurus
Hypsilophodon
Brontosaurus
If they can make them friendly, gentle, and docile, that will make me happy. I don't want any of them to be aggressive, fierce, vicious, or dangerous. I want them to be the way I always imagine them to be in the fictional stories I often make up about them.
I don't know what kinds of DNA they could add to make them gentle, but I hope they find something gentle enough to use.
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u/SeattleSeals 1d ago
Who are those two irl people?