Can Scientists CLONE An Exctinct Species? | Nature Bites

Scientists are determined to bring back an extinct species of frog from the dead, using a living species to help! But will their cloning plans pull through?

The gastric-brooding frogs or platypus frogs is a genus of extinct ground-dwelling frogs native to Queensland in eastern Australia. The genus consisted of only two species, both of which became extinct in the mid-1980s

The Lazarus project, run by the University of Newcastle, Australia, revived the genomes of an extinct Australian frog using sophisticated cloning technology to implant a “dead” cell nucleus into a fresh egg from another frog species

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[pablo-mjjm]

we should not play god, we should preserve hes creation

[wonderwend]

Who says it's extinct? Perhaps you just haven't found any living ones.
I don't think extinct animals should be cloned, they died out for a reason. Haven't we learnt from meddling in introducing species to the wrong places?, Just because you CAN doesn't mean you SHOULD.

[dlw]

Life comes and goes, only mankind is eternal. Not all things in the name of science is ethical or moral. For example look at what we are learning today. Stop looking at so called officials and experts assuming they have all the answers.