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Scientists Find Preserved Dodo Bird Bones
nz17 writes "BBC News is reporting that a team of Dutch and Mauritian scientists have found what appears to be a mass dodo bird grave. From the article: 'Little is known about the dodo, a famous flightless bird thought to have become extinct in the 17th century. No complete skeleton has ever been found in Mauritius, and the last full set of bones was destroyed in a fire at a museum in Oxford, England, in 1755.'"
I can't help but wonder whether cloning is a bad idea. I mean, they became extinct for a reason. Who are we to meddle with nature? (But then who am I to say cloning is wrong?).
Actually, how hard would it be to take the DNA, and use cloning to bring them back? Maybe not as a food item, (though that could create funding...) but just as a "sorry about wiping out your species" present.
Unfortunately, unless things have changed from 2002/2003 (i.e. unless these bones are better than the ones we already have), then all the DNA available is fragmentary and ill-preserved. Not exactly good cloning material.
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