Ted Talk I chose

When a animal goes extinct is it a different kind of death, I believe its a much larger death. If it was possible to bring back extinct species that lets say have been hunted to extinction should we?

In 1914 Martha the last passenger pidgin alive died. These pidgins used to be the most abundant bird in the world, and had been in North America for 6 million years before it was hunted in mas quantity to extinction. Recently in synthetic biology they have found out a way to bring extinct animals like the Passenger Pidgin back to life. They do this by taking Ancient DNA from a dead specimen of the species and are then able to assemble the hole genome, from that the hole bird can be created. They have successfully done this with one species names Javan Banteng (a type of Cow) by having a live Javan Banteng be born out of a cow. But in the case of the Passenger Pidgin we would use band tailed pidgins because they are their closest living relatives. They have also been able to turn stem sells into germ cells like sperm and eggs allowing them to say change the gonads of a chicken to be able to give birth to a falcon.

All of this is just so crazy to think about. And to be honest it makes me a little uncomfortable and uneasy yet really fascinated. Just to think we could fix some of our mistakes in the past of hunting species to extinction that would of otherwise been alive today. But at the same time with other cases some species have become extinct for a reason, that's natures way of survival of the fittest so if we brought some species back we could just create more problems for our self's. So what do you think, should we bring some extinct species back to a world that misses them?