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Should scientists bring back long lost extinct species?
Background: In 1999, scientists in Aragon, Spain, took skin samples from the last known Pyrenean ibex a species of large mountain goat adapted to the snowy Pyrenees. This last ibex died a few months later making the species extinct, so scientists in aragon started working to bring this species back. They took the nucleus from the ibex's cells and put the nucleus in to a domestic goat's cell, which turned in to a embryo and eventually was birthed into a exact copy of the ibex, but died shortly after due to a lung deformity. This event marks the first "De-Extinction" and starts a whole new era and contraversy in to reviving extinct species.
Background: In 1999, scientists in Aragon, Spain, took skin samples from the last known Pyrenean ibex a species of large mountain goat adapted to the snowy Pyrenees. This last ibex died a few months later making the species extinct, so scientists in aragon started working to bring this species back. They took the nucleus from the ibex's cells and put the nucleus in to a domestic goat's cell, which turned in to a embryo and eventually was birthed into a exact copy of the ibex, but died shortly after due to a lung deformity. This event marks the first "De-Extinction" and starts a whole new era and contraversy in to reviving extinct species.
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Scientists should put resources, time, and effort in to bringing back lost species. This effort and time must be put into this because, bringing back species could potentially save the planet, environment, and advance science in to a whole new epoch. Although we could end up no where wasting time and effort into this topic, this risk is out weighed by the benefit of bringing back extinct species to save and advance so much.