Hey Forrest! Another popular wildlife channel I follow recently posted a video and bashed you _a lot_ in it... (of course, being a brostner I vehemently defended you) One of the claims they made was that all the credible experts have agreed that the Pondicherry shark you found was actually a misidentification of a different known non-endangered species and denounced your claim! Also that you were aware of this and had DNA sequenced that you refused to release 🤔 Lmao it was my 1st time hearing of this and was wondering if there is actually any controversy around the Pondicherry rediscovery or were they talking out their arse?
Forrest just makes science and animal history just so much more interesting. He explains it like a normal person and watch out, we just might learn something that we didn’t know about. Extinct or Alive needs to come back too!
I mean he lies about the finds, takes other people credit and pretty sure all journalists are banned from the galapgose tortise hunts after his behaviour Look up steve irwin if you want someone real
I don’t dive often or snorkel, but if there was a wetsuit that could provide heat rather than trap it in, I would definitely go diving with one until I see a leopard seal or orca😂😂
@@Grootsleftacornehh youll be fine if its a orca or a leopard seal they dont attack humans unless provoked the thing you should worry about is a Polar bear
Stellers sea cow, the passenger pidgeon, rhe great auk and the dodo would be my personal choices. As these are extinct purely due to their own trusting nature being abused, not evolution or habitat/ecosystem collapse, just our own stupidity and greed. If I could change anything about history, then an earlier interest and understanding of animal conservation would be up there with preventing a certain German and saving the library of alexandria
Fantastic episode Forrest! I have a ton of other great candidates. Colossal has been very clear that they need three things to be able to de-extinct a species: 1.) A close living relative which shares a similar genome (I'm guessing here, but I would say it would have to share 80-85% of the same DNA for it to be possible). 2.) Well preserved specimens of the extinct species that they can get observable/recordable DNA from. 3.) Most importantly, a suitable ecosystem/habitat and purpose for existing. With those factors, my list stands at: #1.) Caribbean Monk Seal Extinction: 1950's. Closest living relative: Hawaiian Monk Seal This is the biggest no brainer, in my opinion. The Caribbean Monk Seal is an excellent candidate. It went extinct in our lifetime, which means specimens and DNA will be plentiful. There are no monk seals in the North or South American continents anymore (Hawaii is thousands of miles away). They were exclusively slaughtered by humans and there's an extremely close living relative. Also the Hawaiian and Mediterranean monk seals are not doing well at all. Any research into more biodiversity for these species is greatly needed. Seals play an extremely important role in the nutrient circulation of our seas. They are also an extremely charismatic species and humans have a history of husbandry with them. I think they need to be priority #1 moving forward. #2.) Falkland Islands Wolf Extinction: 1870's. Closest living relative: Maned Wolf This is another no brainer, in my opinion. Exterminated in the past 150 years exclusively by humans, the Falkland Islands remain nearly as barren as they were when the wolves roamed the islands in significant numbers. They can fit right back into their habitat (albeit in smaller numbers). There has already been research into their genome and it's known they are closely related to the Maned Wolf of South America and another species that went extinct around 500 years ago on the mainland continent. They would be a perfect case study of reintroduction of an apex canid-type creature into their old environment. If the wolves of Yellowstone are any indication, it will probably be a massive success. #3.) Woolly Rhinoceros Extinction: Approx. 10,000 years ago. Closest living relative: Sumatran Rhinoceros In general, I would think an animal this old would be impossible. But everything that stands for the Woolly Mammoth project stands for the Woolly Rhino. It has a purpose and a proposed habitat in trying to remake the Mammoth Steppe. It has a close living relative: the Sumatran Rhino. And any research that goes into this can help ALL rhino species that are struggling, particularly the three in Southeast Asia. #4.) Great Auk Extinction: 1840's. Closest living relative: Razorbill The Great Auk was exterminated brutally by humans approximately 180 years ago. Their habitat still exists (all their cousins still roost their old nesting sites). And they were a unique species in the Northern Hemisphere. There are numerous specimens available in order to capture DNA and a close living relative: the Razorbill. They are an icon of extinction and they deserve another chance to roam the seas again. #5.) Rodrigues Solitaire Extinction: 1770's. Closest Living Relative: The Nicobar Pigeon If you're going to bring back the Dodo, you might as well bring back its closest relative that lived into modern times! The Solitaire is a fantastic looking bird that was unfairly exterminated by feral rats, cats, and snakes brought by humans. The groundwork is already done for the Dodo. A few thousand gene switches and we have another necessary species! Honorable mentions: Carolina Parakeet, Bluebuck, Japanese Wolf, Moa, Elephant Bird, Haast's Eagle.
Probably the harderst one. Humans did try to stop hunting them but the passenger pidgeon experienced a population collapse even when numbering 10,000 probably because they need large numbers socially to propogate and reproduce. They would need to clone A LOT of passenger pidgeons 😅
It always amazes me to listen to Forrest and hear that moment when he slows his talking because he can feel his accent coming out and he wants to control it. It'd be really interesting to hear him talking unmasked and letting his accent flow, sort of like me when I get around southern people and suddenly my Mississippi accent comes out in force.
I’d like to see genetic diversity added back into the cheetah population, and other animals on the brink of extinction, using some of the deextinction tech. But also the THYLACINE! ❤
This seems like the best first level large scale test. It’s not bringing back anything but it’s still quite a large undertaking. And it’d be a test to see what we are actually capable of with this science.
I have heard that the company he's talking about is also trying to help endangered animals. They just use unextinction as a means to keep in the news and raise money.
I just found your channel a couple days ago and I gotta say I have never been so delighted to see that someone created a UA-cam channel. I first heard of you through JRE and was instantly inspired and interested in what you were doing. Please keep up the great work. Thank you for all you do.
"if I told you extinct animals could come back you would call me crazy" Actually Forrest you and David Attenborough are the only two people I would actually believe on this subject :)
I'm hearing this about mammoth cloning for at the very least past 15 years. And still we're nowhere near it. Probably gonna be same in another 15 year, another guy will be going "I do believe we're gonna see mammoths in our lifetime!".
I don’t blame them, the process of De-Extinction is quite difficult and complicated even if given high tech. We’re still in a state where perfecting and genetic editing is still not possible enough especially in animals that are already extinct.
@@TheseHandsAreRatedE Your comment made me laugh, given humans military deployment of genetically engineered humans, to say this has not been top priority with billions in funding would be so very foolish of anyone, and this is to speak of only the US, other nations would have an even greater desire for this. Remember Pentagon 101, what we are told and know they have is 40-50 years behind what they actually have at their disposal this is a truth not an opinion, ask anyone who served anytime in the military beyond their first signup anyone with 8+ years would have heard all about such things many probably know, but by the time they could speak and not fear being locked in a cage , drove to poverty or worse depending because it is a legal and national defense thing across the board to anyone enlisted that 29years or is it 3 decades, that is the only part I cannot remember fully, it was more interesting to hear someone talk about something without talking about it if you get my meaning. We have far beyond the means to not only bring back but make new versions and subspecies of or exact likes or even as experiments and graphing other species traits to human beings, humans that look the same but have impossible strengths inside and outside the body.
I am here to clear up a few things about the dodo: First, The dodo was not really that dumb for a bird, in fact it seems that it actually was fairly intellegent. Second, Humans alone did not just wipe it out by bonking them or eating them. People often described their food as unruly or disgusting, but it was rather the dogs, cats, and rats introduced onto their island that killed and ate their eggs. With an already slightly lower reproduction rate, the dodo was unable to keep up with their losses from natural disasters that would occur.
Plenty of us are interested in the subject without knowing all the science behind it. If you can bring any extinct creature back as long as you can extract intact DNA which we have with Woolly Mammoths for example through either cloning, artificial insemination with an elephant or genome editing. They successfully did it with the Pyrenean ibex in 2003 and that was over 20 years ago. The technology and processes have made huge advancements since then.
Bringing back the Thylacine to rebuild our Tassie ecosystem would be amazing to see. I will without a doubt visit Tassie to see one in the flesh. Amazingly important work is being done on the cutting edge in this field.
Not tryna be funny but even if they cloned one successful I don’t think they’ll be letting million plus pound experiments lose in the wild they just wouldn’t allow it
@@spiritvtechreviews5294I'm sure it would take a few years, maybe a decent, of studying the new animals before reintroducing them. But the positive impacts would be worth it. Governments already spend multi-millions on conservation. Reintroduction would likely be a joint venture with benefits for those parties.
Out of curiosity, while it would be great to bring them back, do we know why they haven’t just released another small apex predator like the dingo to stabilize the Tasmanian ecosystem? They did that with wolves in Yellowstone and the change was incredible.
This cool. But I’ve been hearing mammoths would be revived for many years now and it seems like nothing happened. Any links or articles to give me hope?
@@Jsavage817 Theory: Russian oligarchs/the government already have a cloned mammoth herd, which they use to produce tusks (which sell for upwards of 50-70k USD each for high quality specimens, in some cases). They haven't announced this fact to preserve the image of scarcity and keep the price high.
I really hope they succeed man. Watching the videos of Benjamin and the fact that he passed just cause someone forgot and left him out in the cold just sucks. Would love to see all these creatures again one day 👍
I wrote a paper in high school about de-extinction and while it absolutely fascinated me, at the time (nearly 10 years ago) it seemed highly unlikely in my opinion. Now I'm very glad to see that I was wrong and can't wait to see these animals brought back and see their ecosystems restored!
The Nazi’s were quite successful back in the 1930’s. The Pyrenean ibex was brought back in 2003. The Woolly Mammoth should be a doddle considering all the pristine frozen examples found.
@@1972dsraiFirst save the remaining Asian elephants and Asian rhinos. Sadly these creatures will be extinct in a few decades if Asiana do not better protect them.😮
Love this video! As a geneticist I think it’s super cool they are carrying out this research. One point to make however, is that they aren’t exactly brining the animal back. Instead, they are brining back proxies of that animal with phenotypic traits similar to the animal they are bringing back. For example, using the mammoth that coalossal aims to bring back, they aren’t directly breeding a pure wooly mammoth. Rather, they aim to engineer viable genes from the wooly mammoth and incorporate them into a proxy species, which is the Indian elephant. Thus, the team at coalossal are amalgamating genomes together to create animals that resemble their extinct counterparts.
Hey Josh, great insight! A perfect example is the Thylacine. Our restored Thylacine will have all the core biological traits of its recently extinct ancestors. You cannot bring back an extinct species that is genetically, behaviorally, and psychologically identical in every way, but our hybrid species will look and sound just like a Thylacine and more importantly, it will be able to inhabit the same ecosystem that has suffered without its existence.
@@joshpython6540 In the mammoth's case that's probably for the best since the original mammoth thrived in a MUCH colder climate than exists today -- a hybrid that can survive in modern Siberia would be better than a "pure" specimen that can't. In terms of environmental impact, I argue the Thylacine is by far the most important. That plus of course continued flora rewilding and extermination of cats/rats/goats from key areas.
@@Soufriere84I don’t see how your brain can come to this conclusion. Wooly mammoths are far and above a more important animal to have back than the Tasmanian tiger. I’m sure you would just rather see the tiger back instead of the mammoth as it’s more exciting.
I’d like to see the return of Dire Wolves, Mammoths and massive Cave Bear (any mega-fauna really)… I love the ideas and science of bringing back animals that are recently extinct and replenishing endangered species.
Giant sloths are on my list too. I also miss not seeing the extinct Selkirk Caribou on hikes....pretty sure those were the only Caribou in US aside from Alaska.
Just make sure before you bring any mega fauna back people are okay with it. I think the Biden administration wants to put grizzly bears back in California. When they go extinct again don't fucking blame us. I gotta live next to the shit they bring back to life not the people who make the decision to bring it back to life they paid and taken care of by the government they got money to go anywhere we normal poor folks gotta deal with what they do so just make sure if you're going to bring something back make sure it's not going to cause itself to go extinct again.
@@itiscolossalwhat the hell i just realized you were the actual colossal bioscience youtube channel we need to get you more subscribers and more known for your amazing work! I thought you were just another youtube commenter
This topic is fascinating! I would love to see you do a video on Colossal Bio and what they are up to, and wo they are working with to make some of this happen. A behind the scenes tour would be awesome!
Busy watching your documentary about sevengills filmed in my backyard, so to speak. I still find it amazing that there is so much diversity around the Cape. Watching you catch that ragged tooth shark from the beach sent chills down my spine. Having dived in some of the areas that you visited and seeing the kelp filmed forrest on film was amazing. Great documentary.👍❤
Your knowledge and passion for discovery and restoration give me so much hope and wonder!! If I was forced to choose one on that list, it would have to be Thylacine
I do want the thylacine to come back, but I would feel guilty for not picking the Kauaʻi ʻōʻō because the last one died singing for a female who never came 😔
I think the loss of the passenger pigeon is also linked to the decline to a specific tree in North America, IIRC white oak and that is also putting the production of casks for alcohol to give them their brand flavour.
There was also the fact that because they gathered together in such huge numbers, when conservation efforts were proposed there was a lot of scoffing at the idea that such an abundant bird could actually be in danger.
As much as I want the Thylacine back, I don’t want to be stomped on by a mammoth or hunt by a cave bear. I read Jurassic Park and I saw the movie “Your scientists so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should?” Ian Malcolm.
It's not only animals suffering from extinction, here in South Africa, especially the Cape with fynbos, the flora is very localized and what remains is very endangered. I've seen plants that have only ever been found in one area, nowhere else, and most people don't even know about how endangered they are. I find it really distressing.
That's an amazing place, full of amazing plants and animals. Some are so specialized that they may be hard to grow anywhere else, but South Africa has given us many spectacular garden and florist plants and flowers that most have no idea where they came from.
I love your shows and your true excitement for this cloning to work. You also care deeply about all animals ❤️. For that I am so grateful. We need millions like you and then we'd stop trophy hunting 😢😢
I think I would cry if I ever saw a wooly mammoth and a dodo. The things that Colossal is doing is just amazing and sometimes hard to wrap my tiny brain around. Imaging saving endangered species. It’s just amazing
Love this❣ The Tasmanian Tiger is a favorite for me, too. I've watched all the expedition documentaries and can almost believe some still exist, but with not much genetic diversity. I'd like to know how the efforts to add genetic diversity to Tasmanian Devils is doing. Supposedly some were brought from a different part of Tasmania to add diversity, but I've never heard or seen anything since. While I'm at it, I wonder if there are any efforts to bring back some of the large Australian marsupials that were wiped out by the first humans who voyaged there---like the giant Ground Sloth, etc. I loved your show and watched every episode and was so exited when you found species thought to be extinct and sad when you didn't. Are you going to do any more of those expeditions? Thank you for all of it!
Hey Chris! We'd love to explain - Population biology is well-researched and understood, particularly among apex predators. Working from 20-50 individual Thylacine specimens to sequence from, our scientists have a large enough data set to ensure a diversified genetic pool for several generations. Furthermore, we are using genetic engineering to make several hundred edits to the surrogate dunnart embryo, further creating genetic diversity.
You could do a mass burst of 5000 passenger pigeons, get the genetics from the many taxidermy specimens, get a large facility, maybe 200-500 pigeons, start fertilizing them with passenger cloned cells and repeat until you build up population mass. The fact their birds should make production fairly fast. Hopefully.
8:08 actually it was the rats, introduced by ships, that ate the dodos eggs which lead to their extinction (dodo had no natural predators so they would nest on the ground and didn’t know how to defend their nests)
I’m somewhat surprised the Irish Elk (Megaloceros giganteus) wasn’t listed so that’s my vote. It’s closest living relative is the Fallow Deer (Dama) I assume the big problem would be getting studiable DNA from the Irish Elk
As a hunter it's sad to see that at one point man couldn't see the problems hunting with no regulations would have or not even thinking about it I would love to see some of these animals cloned and living again but some that went extinct with no help by man I would say is just nature love your work and look forward to more in the future thanks for the video
I was always taught that the dutch explorers had introduced invasive species to mauritius, and that it was this that ultimately began the dodo's extinction? Much like in new zealand etc where rats eat the eggs and young of various species? Or am I remembering school incorrectly? (This is perfectly possible, I left 30 years ago, lol). And also, would it be wise to then put the birds back there if the invasive species are still on the island?
Don't forget the damned Stoats, they are responsible for the decreasing numbers of the Kaka and especially the Kea in New Zealand. There are few birds as fun to be around as the Kea. Playful, clever, charming and with no respect for humans. They are like airborne monkeys!
The taiga, beautiful as it is, is basically a monoculture -- only a few tree species tightly packed. Of course there are species that have adapted to it but its biodiversity is incredibly low for the amount of area it covers. Some taiga animals might survive on a mammoth-steppe, others wouldn't, but it's irrelevant because the taiga is so huge no amount of hybrid mammoths would ever be able to knock it all down.
Hi Forrest, love watching you. You mentioned bringing back the giant Bison, if they do that don't they also have to bring back their predator , the saber toothed tiger.
@frankieboyle8847 I'd rather trophy hunters (because the practice, sadly, I doubt will ever truly be stamped out) paying stupid money to hunt animals grown in a lab which could then be put towards the conservation of our currently endangered species then simply trying to replace them once they're gone
@@jackfenwick6182wait a minute? Sadly? Do you accept that most animals need to be hunted to some degree for the benefit of their own conservation? It always struck me as weird that people would rather some poor African nation pay a bunch of hunters to come and kill lions when they get too many instead of charging rich westerners to come and do it for them. I don't have any problem with trophy hunting as long as it's not poaching, fuck poachers. If someone's gonna do it, it may as well be willing to pay plenty of cash. We look at Africa and see these majestic animals getting shot whilst ignoring in some way the fact that hunters shoot moose, bison and deer in much the same way in the U.S. except people would rather shoot a lion or an elephant than a moose or a deer. African animals have to be controlled like any other, it's the circle of life.
I'd love to see a return of the Carolina Parakeet. I've wanted to see them since I was a child. Also - I loved this episode but wow, the AI art was deeply distracting at times. I get why it would be used for pictures of extinct animals but pretty sure passenger pigeons didn't have three wings to point out just one of the issues.
They are back-breeding to recreate the nearest bovine to the Aurochs in Europe. The first ones are already here. The European Bison has recently been reintroduced to areas where it was extinct, too.
Or is there? Perhaps there is already a herd of cloned mammoths in Siberia, whose tusks are sold by Russian oligarchs/mafia abroad (they are worth tens of k each), while they are claimed to all be dug up from permafrost to keep the belief in scarcity and thus prices high.
My question is: How will we be able to 'teach' some of these animals of their old migratory ways and other 'hidden knowledge' that the extinct generations used to have. Love the videos btw!
A very personal choice, but I would love to see the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker come back. I’m from Arkansas and I remember when the sightings happened back when I was a kid, and the allure of the Ivory-Bill has been with me ever since.
Just came across this video and your channel - saving this video. I am a substitute teacher and the curriculum in our district for science is based around education of animals. I can’t wait to share this information with the students.
I can't believe he missed the Auroch! It's my favourite "de-extinction" program going on, though it's more selective breeding I believe. Plus there is a lot of effort being put into it, so it should rank pretty high.
What’s the Jeff Goldblum line from Jurassic Park? You were so caught up with the fact you could you never stop the think if you should something like that.
A giant cat that hunted giant bison? I guess there are some animals that im glad I won't be running into. Other than the pigeon, the odds you gave to potentially reintroduce formerly extinct animals into the wild are pretty encouraging. I like your passion for nature and her organisms; its this enthusiasm that led me to subscribe. I hope you do end up rediscovering that mountain goat, best of luck to you!
The Channel Islands are so beautiful! I live in SB and look at them everyday. They are so unique. I got to fly over them in a helicopter with the door off. It was breathtaking. I want to camp there so bad. Love your passion for animals and nature Forrest, so interesting.
I used to always watch you every Day but I don’t have cable anymore but I was scrolling on UA-cam shorts and I saw your channel then i literally just sub as soon as sawl you
Can you do a video on the history and extinction of the Carolina Parakeet? I saw you had a taxidermy one in your hand. Also to explore how people keeping and sometimes on purpose and accidently releasing pet parrots may save some of the species. Especially in North America.🐦 🦜
There are flocks of various parrots breeding in Florida, San Francisco, and elsewhere. We have Argentinian Monk Parrots living in Oregon, Washington, New York and other states, as well as across the South. Ring-necked Parakeets are breeding in London, England. Singapore has vast numbers of exotic birds breeding there. California has quite a few small exotic bird populations, especially finches. They are breeding all over the state from Pin-tailed Whydahs to Red Bishops and Java Finches.
The Kiwi egg weighs 1/4 of the birds body weight, which is impressive and often quoted. But a canaries egg is 1/4 of their body weight too! Kiwi's are so interesting in person, like so many of New Zealand birds.
Great video, but I had a few thoughts about the work of Colossal. 90% chance of seeing a Thylacine being brought back in our lifetime is probably a stretch. There are so many technological and theoretical barriers in the way to go from DNA sequence to actual living organism. Although I am not an expert in genome editing, I am a computational biologist specialising in genomics, so I have done by best to establish where Colossal currently are with this project and identify some of the substantial barriers: 1) The most recent genome sequence of Thylacine is a hybrid, using the Tasmanian Devil genome as a backbone for assembly [1]. Although this is entirely reasonable, it is still technically a hybrid genome, and therefore not complete. It is unlikely that this hybrid assembly is reliable enough to derive the necessary phenotype data to make critical adjustments in the Dunnart genome. 2) One of the main impacts of the above assembly was that is allows researchers to study the convergent evolution of craniofacial morphology of the thylacine and canids. Points in this video seem to imply that we already know enough about the relationship between genotype and this particular phenotypic change to modify the dunnart genome to reflect that. That is not the case. This is also one of thousands upon thousands of phenotypic changes which will need to be associated with genotypic variations in some manner, before making adjustments to the dunnart genome. Needless to say, this is not trivial, particularly given that the vast majority of phenotypic changes are not visible. 3) Marsupial genomes are pretty poorly studied in comparison to eutherians. This means that Colossal are starting from a position of lower theoretical understanding, increasing the challenges associated with identifying critical genes and intergenic regions to modify to elicit the desired changes in phenotype. And this is all assuming these key phenotypic changes have genetic origin, if they are epigenetic in nature then we are in real trouble… 4) The current status is that they have a Dunnart pluripotent stem cell line they are (presumably) going to use as a model to develop a viable genome modification workflow. This is a critical step, and an exciting one, but as far as I can tell it is basically the first one, so there is a long way to go yet. 5) There currently does not exist the technology to perform ex-utero gestation to completion. As far as I know, Colossal are also working on this and have prototyped an early-stage marsupial gestation system, but it is important to note that the most advanced ex-utero gestation systems are capable of sustaining growth for less than 2 weeks, even in mice which is an extremely well-studied animal model [2]. 6) I am confident in saying we could not currently modify the genome of a lab mouse, the most studied mammalian organism, into a robust and stable analogue of the rat genome. The theoretical barriers to doing this are far fewer, in that they are more closely related than the Thylacine and the Dunnart (family rather than order, though marsupials genomes are pretty conserved). We have complete and highly reliable genomes for both. We have decades of genotypic and phenotypic studies on both species to draw from. We have a long history of genetic modification and selective breeding of the lab mouse. And finally, if the aim is simply the genomic modification of one species to superficially resemble the morphology of another, there are far fewer morphological changes which need to occur. This is my honest & critical peer review of their work, which I will continue to follow with great interest. None of this is to say this isn’t possible, but it is important to make it clear that seeing the thylacine walking around again would take about 3 or 4 massive breakthroughs, which are unlikely to all happen during our lifetime. Unless of course, you rediscover them… Refs: [1] academic.oup.com/gbe/article/14/4/evac048/6555629?login=false [2] www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9439721/
Baiji, Northern White Rhino, West African Black Rhino, Po’ouli... there are quite a few species we could revive. I think we can figure out how to jurassic park these species back to a thriving population.
Which extinct animal would you like to see make a return?
Stellers seecow
sabertooth tiger would be cool
Sabor tooth tiger
Quick switch Tasmanian tiger
Hey Forrest!
Another popular wildlife channel I follow recently posted a video and bashed you _a lot_ in it... (of course, being a brostner I vehemently defended you)
One of the claims they made was that all the credible experts have agreed that the Pondicherry shark you found was actually a misidentification of a different known non-endangered species and denounced your claim! Also that you were aware of this and had DNA sequenced that you refused to release 🤔
Lmao it was my 1st time hearing of this and was wondering if there is actually any controversy around the Pondicherry rediscovery or were they talking out their arse?
Forrest just makes science and animal history just so much more interesting. He explains it like a normal person and watch out, we just might learn something that we didn’t know about. Extinct or Alive needs to come back too!
I mean he lies about the finds, takes other people credit and pretty sure all journalists are banned from the galapgose tortise hunts after his behaviour
Look up steve irwin if you want someone real
Agreed! Major Forrest Fans over here 🙌
As another Forrest that also has a love of paleontology and archaeology he is one of my favorites
But not dinosours they are scary 2:49
I would love to see Steller’s Sea Cow, just the idea of a giant manatee living in the arctic seems really cool
Exactly this is a species I often day dream about. One of the coolest.
I don’t dive often or snorkel, but if there was a wetsuit that could provide heat rather than trap it in, I would definitely go diving with one until I see a leopard seal or orca😂😂
@@Grootsleftacornehh youll be fine if its a orca or a leopard seal they dont attack humans unless provoked the thing you should worry about is a Polar bear
Atleast we’ve got stellar sea eagle
Stellers sea cow, the passenger pidgeon, rhe great auk and the dodo would be my personal choices. As these are extinct purely due to their own trusting nature being abused, not evolution or habitat/ecosystem collapse, just our own stupidity and greed. If I could change anything about history, then an earlier interest and understanding of animal conservation would be up there with preventing a certain German and saving the library of alexandria
Fantastic episode Forrest! I have a ton of other great candidates.
Colossal has been very clear that they need three things to be able to de-extinct a species:
1.) A close living relative which shares a similar genome (I'm guessing here, but I would say it would have to share 80-85% of the same DNA for it to be possible).
2.) Well preserved specimens of the extinct species that they can get observable/recordable DNA from.
3.) Most importantly, a suitable ecosystem/habitat and purpose for existing.
With those factors, my list stands at:
#1.) Caribbean Monk Seal
Extinction: 1950's.
Closest living relative: Hawaiian Monk Seal
This is the biggest no brainer, in my opinion. The Caribbean Monk Seal is an excellent candidate. It went extinct in our lifetime, which means specimens and DNA will be plentiful. There are no monk seals in the North or South American continents anymore (Hawaii is thousands of miles away). They were exclusively slaughtered by humans and there's an extremely close living relative. Also the Hawaiian and Mediterranean monk seals are not doing well at all. Any research into more biodiversity for these species is greatly needed. Seals play an extremely important role in the nutrient circulation of our seas. They are also an extremely charismatic species and humans have a history of husbandry with them. I think they need to be priority #1 moving forward.
#2.) Falkland Islands Wolf
Extinction: 1870's.
Closest living relative: Maned Wolf
This is another no brainer, in my opinion. Exterminated in the past 150 years exclusively by humans, the Falkland Islands remain nearly as barren as they were when the wolves roamed the islands in significant numbers. They can fit right back into their habitat (albeit in smaller numbers). There has already been research into their genome and it's known they are closely related to the Maned Wolf of South America and another species that went extinct around 500 years ago on the mainland continent. They would be a perfect case study of reintroduction of an apex canid-type creature into their old environment. If the wolves of Yellowstone are any indication, it will probably be a massive success.
#3.) Woolly Rhinoceros
Extinction: Approx. 10,000 years ago.
Closest living relative: Sumatran Rhinoceros
In general, I would think an animal this old would be impossible. But everything that stands for the Woolly Mammoth project stands for the Woolly Rhino. It has a purpose and a proposed habitat in trying to remake the Mammoth Steppe. It has a close living relative: the Sumatran Rhino. And any research that goes into this can help ALL rhino species that are struggling, particularly the three in Southeast Asia.
#4.) Great Auk
Extinction: 1840's.
Closest living relative: Razorbill
The Great Auk was exterminated brutally by humans approximately 180 years ago. Their habitat still exists (all their cousins still roost their old nesting sites). And they were a unique species in the Northern Hemisphere. There are numerous specimens available in order to capture DNA and a close living relative: the Razorbill. They are an icon of extinction and they deserve another chance to roam the seas again.
#5.) Rodrigues Solitaire
Extinction: 1770's.
Closest Living Relative: The Nicobar Pigeon
If you're going to bring back the Dodo, you might as well bring back its closest relative that lived into modern times! The Solitaire is a fantastic looking bird that was unfairly exterminated by feral rats, cats, and snakes brought by humans. The groundwork is already done for the Dodo. A few thousand gene switches and we have another necessary species!
Honorable mentions:
Carolina Parakeet, Bluebuck, Japanese Wolf, Moa, Elephant Bird, Haast's Eagle.
Did you write this book just so you could read it, because no one else did.
Humans and chimps have 99% same DNA for reference
26+ upvotes bud, people are interested in what I wrote!
@@sportsman893 you keep telling yourself that. Good for you.
@@smashtoad I read it and I liked it, get a life you illiterate.
The passenger pigeon is probably the most important one to bring back because of its ability to spread different seeds to large areas
Yeah good passenger pigeon 🐦
Probably the harderst one. Humans did try to stop hunting them but the passenger pidgeon experienced a population collapse even when numbering 10,000 probably because they need large numbers socially to propogate and reproduce. They would need to clone A LOT of passenger pidgeons 😅
but the DNA is too fragmented
It always amazes me to listen to Forrest and hear that moment when he slows his talking because he can feel his accent coming out and he wants to control it. It'd be really interesting to hear him talking unmasked and letting his accent flow, sort of like me when I get around southern people and suddenly my Mississippi accent comes out in force.
I’d like to see genetic diversity added back into the cheetah population, and other animals on the brink of extinction, using some of the deextinction tech. But also the THYLACINE! ❤
This seems like the best first level large scale test. It’s not bringing back anything but it’s still quite a large undertaking. And it’d be a test to see what we are actually capable of with this science.
I would like to see more Cheetahs too especially the color phase known as the king cheetah
I have heard that the company he's talking about is also trying to help endangered animals. They just use unextinction as a means to keep in the news and raise money.
@@jonathanhall1825more alternate markings then a truely different color phase.
Learning about the American cheetah makes me wish we could find a way to introduce diversity back into the cheetah population.
I just found your channel a couple days ago and I gotta say I have never been so delighted to see that someone created a UA-cam channel. I first heard of you through JRE and was instantly inspired and interested in what you were doing. Please keep up the great work. Thank you for all you do.
"if I told you extinct animals could come back you would call me crazy" Actually Forrest you and David Attenborough are the only two people I would actually believe on this subject :)
I'm hearing this about mammoth cloning for at the very least past 15 years. And still we're nowhere near it. Probably gonna be same in another 15 year, another guy will be going "I do believe we're gonna see mammoths in our lifetime!".
is 15 years considered a lifetime to you?
I don’t blame them, the process of De-Extinction is quite difficult and complicated even if given high tech. We’re still in a state where perfecting and genetic editing is still not possible enough especially in animals that are already extinct.
@@TheseHandsAreRatedE Your comment made me laugh, given humans military deployment of genetically engineered humans, to say this has not been top priority with billions in funding would be so very foolish of anyone, and this is to speak of only the US, other nations would have an even greater desire for this. Remember Pentagon 101, what we are told and know they have is 40-50 years behind what they actually have at their disposal this is a truth not an opinion, ask anyone who served anytime in the military beyond their first signup anyone with 8+ years would have heard all about such things many probably know, but by the time they could speak and not fear being locked in a cage , drove to poverty or worse depending because it is a legal and national defense thing across the board to anyone enlisted that 29years or is it 3 decades, that is the only part I cannot remember fully, it was more interesting to hear someone talk about something without talking about it if you get my meaning. We have far beyond the means to not only bring back but make new versions and subspecies of or exact likes or even as experiments and graphing other species traits to human beings, humans that look the same but have impossible strengths inside and outside the body.
Atop yapping little bro no ones reading all that@@heliosgnosis2744
I am here to clear up a few things about the dodo: First, The dodo was not really that dumb for a bird, in fact it seems that it actually was fairly intellegent. Second, Humans alone did not just wipe it out by bonking them or eating them. People often described their food as unruly or disgusting, but it was rather the dogs, cats, and rats introduced onto their island that killed and ate their eggs. With an already slightly lower reproduction rate, the dodo was unable to keep up with their losses from natural disasters that would occur.
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I really want to see some dodo birds for the first time
Bye old 🦤
Hello future 🦤
This just goes to show that a certain someone doesnt know as much as he leads us to believe😅
This is true
I was about to comment the same thing, but you said it better than I would have.
To be able to say something that’s so scientific and technical in a “dumbed down” and simple way just shows how knowledgeable this guy really is
Right?! We definitely didn't make it easy for him 🦣
Plenty of us are interested in the subject without knowing all the science behind it. If you can bring any extinct creature back as long as you can extract intact DNA which we have with Woolly Mammoths for example through either cloning, artificial insemination with an elephant or genome editing. They successfully did it with the Pyrenean ibex in 2003 and that was over 20 years ago. The technology and processes have made huge advancements since then.
Bringing back the Thylacine to rebuild our Tassie ecosystem would be amazing to see. I will without a doubt visit Tassie to see one in the flesh. Amazingly important work is being done on the cutting edge in this field.
I live here; I'll be watching.
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Not tryna be funny but even if they cloned one successful I don’t think they’ll be letting million plus pound experiments lose in the wild they just wouldn’t allow it
@@spiritvtechreviews5294I'm sure it would take a few years, maybe a decent, of studying the new animals before reintroducing them. But the positive impacts would be worth it. Governments already spend multi-millions on conservation. Reintroduction would likely be a joint venture with benefits for those parties.
Out of curiosity, while it would be great to bring them back, do we know why they haven’t just released another small apex predator like the dingo to stabilize the Tasmanian ecosystem? They did that with wolves in Yellowstone and the change was incredible.
Awesome video Forrest. Thank you for doing what you do.
This cool. But I’ve been hearing mammoths would be revived for many years now and it seems like nothing happened. Any links or articles to give me hope?
I seen a article that they could bring it back by 2027 but idk 🤷
@@Jsavage817 Theory: Russian oligarchs/the government already have a cloned mammoth herd, which they use to produce tusks (which sell for upwards of 50-70k USD each for high quality specimens, in some cases). They haven't announced this fact to preserve the image of scarcity and keep the price high.
I really hope they succeed man. Watching the videos of Benjamin and the fact that he passed just cause someone forgot and left him out in the cold just sucks. Would love to see all these creatures again one day 👍
Fr, I can’t imagine what that person was thinking after the incident. Being responsible for the death of the last of an entire family must hurt
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I wrote a paper in high school about de-extinction and while it absolutely fascinated me, at the time (nearly 10 years ago) it seemed highly unlikely in my opinion. Now I'm very glad to see that I was wrong and can't wait to see these animals brought back and see their ecosystems restored!
Isn't it amazing to be wrong sometimes! I'm glad the science is improving
The Nazi’s were quite successful back in the 1930’s. The Pyrenean ibex was brought back in 2003. The Woolly Mammoth should be a doddle considering all the pristine frozen examples found.
@@1972dsraiFirst save the remaining Asian elephants and Asian rhinos. Sadly these creatures will be extinct in a few decades if Asiana do not better protect them.😮
I wrote a English assignment about colossal and my English teacher laughed at me well see who’s laughing when there is a mammoth on the news
Lol, that’s hilarious 😂😂😂😂
As a Mauritian, I'll be exhilarated if I saw a living, breathing dodo in my lifetime
If we bring back the Woolly mammoth back from extinction poacher’s are going to screw everything over.
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idea. hire armed people to defend against pochers(new jobs also). i wrote comment before but stupid yt deleted it.
@@MeelisMatt cool
@@Kreszowski859 yes
Love this video! As a geneticist I think it’s super cool they are carrying out this research. One point to make however, is that they aren’t exactly brining the animal back. Instead, they are brining back proxies of that animal with phenotypic traits similar to the animal they are bringing back. For example, using the mammoth that coalossal aims to bring back, they aren’t directly breeding a pure wooly mammoth. Rather, they aim to engineer viable genes from the wooly mammoth and incorporate them into a proxy species, which is the Indian elephant. Thus, the team at coalossal are amalgamating genomes together to create animals that resemble their extinct counterparts.
So they’re going to find a common point in between the two?
@@fornito530 yeah, it’s kind of like a hybrid between the two species
Hey Josh, great insight! A perfect example is the Thylacine. Our restored Thylacine will have all the core biological traits of its recently extinct ancestors. You cannot bring back an extinct species that is genetically, behaviorally, and psychologically identical in every way, but our hybrid species will look and sound just like a Thylacine and more importantly, it will be able to inhabit the same ecosystem that has suffered without its existence.
@@joshpython6540 In the mammoth's case that's probably for the best since the original mammoth thrived in a MUCH colder climate than exists today -- a hybrid that can survive in modern Siberia would be better than a "pure" specimen that can't. In terms of environmental impact, I argue the Thylacine is by far the most important. That plus of course continued flora rewilding and extermination of cats/rats/goats from key areas.
@@Soufriere84I don’t see how your brain can come to this conclusion. Wooly mammoths are far and above a more important animal to have back than the Tasmanian tiger. I’m sure you would just rather see the tiger back instead of the mammoth as it’s more exciting.
I’d like to see the return of Dire Wolves, Mammoths and massive Cave Bear (any mega-fauna really)…
I love the ideas and science of bringing back animals that are recently extinct and replenishing endangered species.
Giant sloths are on my list too. I also miss not seeing the extinct Selkirk Caribou on hikes....pretty sure those were the only Caribou in US aside from Alaska.
Just make sure before you bring any mega fauna back people are okay with it. I think the Biden administration wants to put grizzly bears back in California. When they go extinct again don't fucking blame us. I gotta live next to the shit they bring back to life not the people who make the decision to bring it back to life they paid and taken care of by the government they got money to go anywhere we normal poor folks gotta deal with what they do so just make sure if you're going to bring something back make sure it's not going to cause itself to go extinct again.
those things are huge... imagine if you could domesticate them
@@itiscolossalwhat the hell i just realized you were the actual colossal bioscience youtube channel
we need to get you more subscribers and more known for your amazing work! I thought you were just another youtube commenter
Dire wolves would be so badass! We could theoretically bring back the terror bird while we’re at it
Are you doing a 3rd season of Extinct or Alive? I love that show.
I couldn’t stop tearing up at the passenger pigeon section
This topic is fascinating! I would love to see you do a video on Colossal Bio and what they are up to, and wo they are working with to make some of this happen. A behind the scenes tour would be awesome!
Great video Forrest! Keep up the good work mate.
Great work sir!! Keep it up!! Someday we are going to have to get you up here for some adventures onboard with us!
Busy watching your documentary about sevengills filmed in my backyard, so to speak. I still find it amazing that there is so much diversity around the Cape. Watching you catch that ragged tooth shark from the beach sent chills down my spine. Having dived in some of the areas that you visited and seeing the kelp filmed forrest on film was amazing. Great documentary.👍❤
Keep this stuff coming! Love to hear about this kind of work. Let’s get this some traction and get this trip funded!
Promises promises. Been waiting all of my 40 year life for the woolly mammoth to come back to life. Stop playing with my heart like this.
The advances in genetics, science and medicine are the good news that most people ignore. The advances are astonishing
Your knowledge and passion for discovery and restoration give me so much hope and wonder!! If I was forced to choose one on that list, it would have to be Thylacine
Great pick!
I do want the thylacine to come back, but I would feel guilty for not picking the Kauaʻi ʻōʻō because the last one died singing for a female who never came 😔
I think the loss of the passenger pigeon is also linked to the decline to a specific tree in North America, IIRC white oak and that is also putting the production of casks for alcohol to give them their brand flavour.
There was also the fact that because they gathered together in such huge numbers, when conservation efforts were proposed there was a lot of scoffing at the idea that such an abundant bird could actually be in danger.
When are you going to make extinct or alive episode's again i loved them and im still watching them pls let us know when your gonna make more
As much as I want the Thylacine back, I don’t want to be stomped on by a mammoth or hunt by a cave bear. I read Jurassic Park and I saw the movie “Your scientists so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should?” Ian Malcolm.
Carolina Parakeet💯 I’d love to see this one before I die
It's not only animals suffering from extinction, here in South Africa, especially the Cape with fynbos, the flora is very localized and what remains is very endangered. I've seen plants that have only ever been found in one area, nowhere else, and most people don't even know about how endangered they are. I find it really distressing.
That's an amazing place, full of amazing plants and animals. Some are so specialized that they may be hard to grow anywhere else, but South Africa has given us many spectacular garden and florist plants and flowers that most have no idea where they came from.
I love your shows and your true excitement for this cloning to work. You also care deeply about all animals ❤️. For that I am so grateful. We need millions like you and then we'd stop trophy hunting 😢😢
One animal I would love to bring back would be caspian tiger. They are such beautiful animals with all the white.
Content is getting better!
I think I would cry if I ever saw a wooly mammoth and a dodo. The things that Colossal is doing is just amazing and sometimes hard to wrap my tiny brain around. Imaging saving endangered species. It’s just amazing
The north American cheetah would be super cool, def a predator that would help keep balance on the elk, deer etc
Love this❣ The Tasmanian Tiger is a favorite for me, too. I've watched all the expedition documentaries and can almost believe some still exist, but with not much genetic diversity. I'd like to know how the efforts to add genetic diversity to Tasmanian Devils is doing. Supposedly some were brought from a different part of Tasmania to add diversity, but I've never heard or seen anything since. While I'm at it, I wonder if there are any efforts to bring back some of the large Australian marsupials that were wiped out by the first humans who voyaged there---like the giant Ground Sloth, etc. I loved your show and watched every episode and was so exited when you found species thought to be extinct and sad when you didn't. Are you going to do any more of those expeditions? Thank you for all of it!
Hey Chris! We'd love to explain - Population biology is well-researched and understood, particularly among apex predators. Working from 20-50 individual Thylacine specimens to sequence from, our scientists have a large enough data set to ensure a diversified genetic pool for several generations. Furthermore, we are using genetic engineering to make several hundred edits to the surrogate dunnart embryo, further creating genetic diversity.
You could do a mass burst of 5000 passenger pigeons, get the genetics from the many taxidermy specimens, get a large facility, maybe 200-500 pigeons, start fertilizing them with passenger cloned cells and repeat until you build up population mass. The fact their birds should make production fairly fast. Hopefully.
I love your channel, Forsest, just as much as I liked your TV show, Extinct or Alive . Is there a new season coming soon???
8:08 actually it was the rats, introduced by ships, that ate the dodos eggs which lead to their extinction
(dodo had no natural predators so they would nest on the ground and didn’t know how to defend their nests)
That's part of the reason
Forrest is underappreciated, certified legend.
Agreed.
As a South Dakotaen I would live to see a giant bison
I’m somewhat surprised the Irish Elk (Megaloceros giganteus) wasn’t listed so that’s my vote.
It’s closest living relative is the Fallow Deer (Dama)
I assume the big problem would be getting studiable DNA from the Irish Elk
Forrest. You are seriously the coolest person alive right now!
I AM SO HAPPY SOMEONE ELSE LOVES THE TT AS MUCH AS I DO 😭
I'm always down for repairing mistakes. Let's hope that the people repairing don't make worse ones.
As a hunter it's sad to see that at one point man couldn't see the problems hunting with no regulations would have or not even thinking about it I would love to see some of these animals cloned and living again but some that went extinct with no help by man I would say is just nature love your work and look forward to more in the future thanks for the video
Time to fix our mistakes 🫡
I was always taught that the dutch explorers had introduced invasive species to mauritius, and that it was this that ultimately began the dodo's extinction? Much like in new zealand etc where rats eat the eggs and young of various species? Or am I remembering school incorrectly? (This is perfectly possible, I left 30 years ago, lol).
And also, would it be wise to then put the birds back there if the invasive species are still on the island?
Don't forget the damned Stoats, they are responsible for the decreasing numbers of the Kaka and especially the Kea in New Zealand. There are few birds as fun to be around as the Kea. Playful, clever, charming and with no respect for humans. They are like airborne monkeys!
the mammoth coming back is LITERALLY a childhood dream come true.
Had no idea of the impact of the woolley mammoth had on the environment. Very interesting. Thanks for doing this video.
What are the implications of making the Taiga back into a savannah? Would that not do more harm to animals that have already adapted to it?
As long as all of current biomes aren't taken over it should be fine
And certain animals would probably be able to thrive on the Mammoth Stepe
The taiga, beautiful as it is, is basically a monoculture -- only a few tree species tightly packed. Of course there are species that have adapted to it but its biodiversity is incredibly low for the amount of area it covers. Some taiga animals might survive on a mammoth-steppe, others wouldn't, but it's irrelevant because the taiga is so huge no amount of hybrid mammoths would ever be able to knock it all down.
Hi Forrest, love watching you. You mentioned bringing back the giant Bison, if they do that don't they also have to bring back their predator , the saber toothed tiger.
Well humans will be their predator if they overpopulate to much one day.
Then again people would pay big bucks to shoot sabertooths too
@frankieboyle8847 I'd rather trophy hunters (because the practice, sadly, I doubt will ever truly be stamped out) paying stupid money to hunt animals grown in a lab which could then be put towards the conservation of our currently endangered species then simply trying to replace them once they're gone
@@jackfenwick6182wait a minute? Sadly? Do you accept that most animals need to be hunted to some degree for the benefit of their own conservation? It always struck me as weird that people would rather some poor African nation pay a bunch of hunters to come and kill lions when they get too many instead of charging rich westerners to come and do it for them. I don't have any problem with trophy hunting as long as it's not poaching, fuck poachers. If someone's gonna do it, it may as well be willing to pay plenty of cash. We look at Africa and see these majestic animals getting shot whilst ignoring in some way the fact that hunters shoot moose, bison and deer in much the same way in the U.S. except people would rather shoot a lion or an elephant than a moose or a deer. African animals have to be controlled like any other, it's the circle of life.
@@frankieboyle8847what about smilodon?
Imagine T-Rex being brought back
Unfortunately, would never happen.They're Is dna is all gone
I'd love to see a return of the Carolina Parakeet. I've wanted to see them since I was a child. Also - I loved this episode but wow, the AI art was deeply distracting at times. I get why it would be used for pictures of extinct animals but pretty sure passenger pigeons didn't have three wings to point out just one of the issues.
Love this channel miss your shows
Any chance we’ll see aurochs?
They are back-breeding to recreate the nearest bovine to the Aurochs in Europe. The first ones are already here. The European Bison has recently been reintroduced to areas where it was extinct, too.
They said they were going to bring the Woolly mammoth back 10 years ago. It’s been 10 years and still no Woolly Mammoth.
Welcome to the future
Or is there? Perhaps there is already a herd of cloned mammoths in Siberia, whose tusks are sold by Russian oligarchs/mafia abroad (they are worth tens of k each), while they are claimed to all be dug up from permafrost to keep the belief in scarcity and thus prices high.
This has been talked about for decades now, but they still haven't brought back to life a single extinct animal so far.
But the technology is accelerating, you can have a dead pet cloned already, if you are very, very wealthy.
Thanks for explaining things in a way that I can understand
Amazing youre great forrest such a inspiration
Bringing back the ancient bison will need its predator to be brought back too, as the current predators may not be able to hunt such a bigger prey
My favorite would be the Tasmanian tiger
Great pick 🖤
99 percent of Aliens prefer Earth 🌎
Especially the illegal ones...lol
My question is: How will we be able to 'teach' some of these animals of their old migratory ways and other 'hidden knowledge' that the extinct generations used to have. Love the videos btw!
I swear that the Henry doorly zoo used to have something like that Quagga thing
Nvm it’s called an Okapi
i want a pet dodo they were literally killed for being so docile and friendly ;(
Imagine if they bring back a Megalodon 🤣💀
Thats what I was telling my friends son lol.
I wish that they never got extinct 😢
Yeah, but nope that’s not gonna happen 😆. Because there’s not enough oxygen and low water doesn’t get enough.
Scientists are trying to bring back meglodon but they really should not
I've been hearing the same BS for over 50 years. Smh
Stop lying you did not
I found this video and it was certainly interesting. A lot to think about and consider possibilities. 😊
A very personal choice, but I would love to see the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker come back. I’m from Arkansas and I remember when the sightings happened back when I was a kid, and the allure of the Ivory-Bill has been with me ever since.
Just came across this video and your channel - saving this video. I am a substitute teacher and the curriculum in our district for science is based around education of animals. I can’t wait to share this information with the students.
I can't believe he missed the Auroch! It's my favourite "de-extinction" program going on, though it's more selective breeding I believe. Plus there is a lot of effort being put into it, so it should rank pretty high.
Interesting. Wasn’t Crispr the ones bringing back the Woolly mammoth?
CRISPR isn't a company, it's a gene editing technique whose patent is held by MIT & Harvard
What’s the Jeff Goldblum line from Jurassic Park? You were so caught up with the fact you could you never stop the think if you should something like that.
A giant cat that hunted giant bison? I guess there are some animals that im glad I won't be running into. Other than the pigeon, the odds you gave to potentially reintroduce formerly extinct animals into the wild are pretty encouraging. I like your passion for nature and her organisms; its this enthusiasm that led me to subscribe. I hope you do end up rediscovering that mountain goat, best of luck to you!
I would love to see the Tasmanian Tiger! I first learned about it on your show and I thought it was sooo cool!❤❤
Great upload bro! Hit me up for your next adventure lols 😁
I would like to see the Aurochs brought back.
The Channel Islands are so beautiful! I live in SB and look at them everyday. They are so unique. I got to fly over them in a helicopter with the door off. It was breathtaking. I want to camp there so bad. Love your passion for animals and nature Forrest, so interesting.
I used to always watch you every
Day but I don’t have cable anymore but I was scrolling on UA-cam shorts and I saw your channel then i literally just sub as soon as sawl you
Dumb question, but say we bring back a mammoth, how will the mammoth know how to mammoth like its ancestors did
Can you do a video on the history and extinction of the Carolina Parakeet? I saw you had a taxidermy one in your hand. Also to explore how people keeping and sometimes on purpose and accidently releasing pet parrots may save some of the species. Especially in North America.🐦 🦜
There are flocks of various parrots breeding in Florida, San Francisco, and elsewhere. We have Argentinian Monk Parrots living in Oregon, Washington, New York and other states, as well as across the South. Ring-necked Parakeets are breeding in London, England. Singapore has vast numbers of exotic birds breeding there. California has quite a few small exotic bird populations, especially finches. They are breeding all over the state from Pin-tailed Whydahs to Red Bishops and Java Finches.
Elephant bird. Closest relative is the kiwi... not the ostrich or emu. One big egg, one big bird.
The Kiwi egg weighs 1/4 of the birds body weight, which is impressive and often quoted. But a canaries egg is 1/4 of their body weight too! Kiwi's are so interesting in person, like so many of New Zealand birds.
Great video, but I had a few thoughts about the work of Colossal.
90% chance of seeing a Thylacine being brought back in our lifetime is probably a stretch. There are so many technological and theoretical barriers in the way to go from DNA sequence to actual living organism. Although I am not an expert in genome editing, I am a computational biologist specialising in genomics, so I have done by best to establish where Colossal currently are with this project and identify some of the substantial barriers:
1) The most recent genome sequence of Thylacine is a hybrid, using the Tasmanian Devil genome as a backbone for assembly [1]. Although this is entirely reasonable, it is still technically a hybrid genome, and therefore not complete. It is unlikely that this hybrid assembly is reliable enough to derive the necessary phenotype data to make critical adjustments in the Dunnart genome.
2) One of the main impacts of the above assembly was that is allows researchers to study the convergent evolution of craniofacial morphology of the thylacine and canids. Points in this video seem to imply that we already know enough about the relationship between genotype and this particular phenotypic change to modify the dunnart genome to reflect that. That is not the case. This is also one of thousands upon thousands of phenotypic changes which will need to be associated with genotypic variations in some manner, before making adjustments to the dunnart genome. Needless to say, this is not trivial, particularly given that the vast majority of phenotypic changes are not visible.
3) Marsupial genomes are pretty poorly studied in comparison to eutherians. This means that Colossal are starting from a position of lower theoretical understanding, increasing the challenges associated with identifying critical genes and intergenic regions to modify to elicit the desired changes in phenotype. And this is all assuming these key phenotypic changes have genetic origin, if they are epigenetic in nature then we are in real trouble…
4) The current status is that they have a Dunnart pluripotent stem cell line they are (presumably) going to use as a model to develop a viable genome modification workflow. This is a critical step, and an exciting one, but as far as I can tell it is basically the first one, so there is a long way to go yet.
5) There currently does not exist the technology to perform ex-utero gestation to completion. As far as I know, Colossal are also working on this and have prototyped an early-stage marsupial gestation system, but it is important to note that the most advanced ex-utero gestation systems are capable of sustaining growth for less than 2 weeks, even in mice which is an extremely well-studied animal model [2].
6) I am confident in saying we could not currently modify the genome of a lab mouse, the most studied mammalian organism, into a robust and stable analogue of the rat genome. The theoretical barriers to doing this are far fewer, in that they are more closely related than the Thylacine and the Dunnart (family rather than order, though marsupials genomes are pretty conserved). We have complete and highly reliable genomes for both. We have decades of genotypic and phenotypic studies on both species to draw from. We have a long history of genetic modification and selective breeding of the lab mouse. And finally, if the aim is simply the genomic modification of one species to superficially resemble the morphology of another, there are far fewer morphological changes which need to occur.
This is my honest & critical peer review of their work, which I will continue to follow with great interest. None of this is to say this isn’t possible, but it is important to make it clear that seeing the thylacine walking around again would take about 3 or 4 massive breakthroughs, which are unlikely to all happen during our lifetime. Unless of course, you rediscover them…
Refs:
[1] academic.oup.com/gbe/article/14/4/evac048/6555629?login=false
[2] www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9439721/
do you think they could bring back the sabre tooth tiger? i would absolutely lovveee to see one
Can we please bring back my ancestors the red "well its actually orange lol" haired GIANTS!"??😂😂
Amazing explanation
Jeez man I've always watched and loved your stuff but this spoke to me especiallythe end
7:19 That's crazy I hope they succeed but I don't want Jurassic world ILR 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Big shout out to colossal❤
Baiji, Northern White Rhino, West African Black Rhino, Po’ouli... there are quite a few species we could revive. I think we can figure out how to jurassic park these species back to a thriving population.
It would be so cool to see woolly mammoths walking the Earth again.
Plz put spotlight on Carolina Parakeet, Galacus Macaw & Cuban Macaw
Love these vids
Cant wait for the mamoth update to drop!