Will the dodo ever be revived?

Answer 1

It isn't possible yet, but it may be in the future. It requires a number of problems in genetics to be solved before we can even think about reviving the Dodo.

The biggest ethical question is 'should we?'

The biggest technical question is 'Can we?'

Should we try to resurrect species that have died out through natural selection or even human intervention? Isn't that like trying to play God?

Technically genetics is at a very early stage and simply can't do what Science Fiction films like Jurassic park lead you to believe is possible. certainly is it not currently possible to simply take some DNA and insert it onto a machine and grow an embryo, then hatch it.

We have the ability to clone DNA but that is only half the equation. To create life you need an egg, and there aren't any viable Dodo eggs around these days. So even if we could replicate the DNA instructions to create a Dodo we couldn't actually bring it to life.

Is there a way around that? Possibly, but its not viable yet. We would have to implant the DNA into the nearest living relative of the Dodo bird. I don't know what that its but for demonstration purposes lets call it a chicken.

So we get a live chicken egg and we insert our replicated DNA strands from the Dodo and stimulate the Zygote to start dividing. Eventually a chicken Dodo cross is born. But this little guy is more chicken than Dodo. So we grow that chicken/Dodo up and when it lays an egg we take that and we do the same thing over again. This chicken is now 1 part chicken and 2 parts Dodo. So we do it again and again and again (At least 16 times).

Eventually we get something which is actually a hybrid animal but looks something like a Dodo. Is this a Dodo? No its a hybrid. Was it ethical to create a cross part chicken part dodo?

Why stop there if this is ethical then why not create a half man half bird? What makes that less or more ethical than recreating a dodo?

Answer 2

They will not be back. They have been extinct for hundreds of years.

Answer 3

Well, It may come to back to life on day. Scientists recently thought about cloning extinct animals (Tasmanian tiger, dodo Bird e.t.c) So yeah, Research about that.