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Environment & Energy

eppur_se_muova

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3. The Quagga Project seems to be achieving success, though it is perhaps a special case ...

Reply to dixiegrrrrl (Reply #2)

Thu Sep 14, 2017, 08:44 AM

Sep 2017

... in that the Quagga was never a fully differentiated species, but a subspecies.

Efforts with aurochs and Barbary lions are also underway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-extinction

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Scientists hope to restore extinct Galapagos tortoise (AP/ABC) [View all] eppur_se_muova Sep 2017 OP

Hope it works. democratisphere Sep 2017 #1

It has worked with other species dixiegrrrrl Sep 2017 #2

The Quagga Project seems to be achieving success, though it is perhaps a special case ... eppur_se_muova Sep 2017 #3

imho, it is working w english bulldogs. no dna testing involved, but mopinko Sep 2017 #4

* climbs onto soapbox* : dixiegrrrrl Sep 2017 #5

i blame the judges. mopinko Sep 2017 #6