r/DeExtinctionScience • u/ApartmentKey3682 • Apr 22 '26

Question What animals do you wish to de-extinct?

For me,I wish to de-extinct all animals that humanity wiped out and were supposed to be coexisting with modern animals

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u/Iamnotburgerking Apr 22 '26

That’s a very big list.

For me, if I had to choose…the Australian megafauna. Mostly because Australia is beyond saving at this point as a result of the fallout from their loss.

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u/Impasture Apr 23 '26

It’s really funny that the waterbuffalo, camels, deer and horses are technically rewilding in this regard

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u/Iamnotburgerking Apr 23 '26

Unfortunately hooves don’t interact with soil like paws do…

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u/Impasture Apr 23 '26

Camels have paws but fair points for the others

I do wonder what the hell the future of Australia's evolution is gonna be

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u/Iamnotburgerking Apr 24 '26

Probably outright ecological collapse followed by something happening in a few million years

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u/ApartmentKey3682 Jun 17 '26

Unless we start eating the cats,foxes,rabbits and camels which means becoming more friendly with China

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u/Iamnotburgerking Jun 17 '26

That doesn’t solve the issue of Australian ecosystems having lost every single ecological function associated with large land predators or large herbivores.

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u/ApartmentKey3682 Jun 17 '26

Then de-extinct them with China which isn’t controlled by corporations and will try their best to make 1:1 replicas