Found an Extinct Species, so Let's Kill It

They had fertilized coccoons plus the juvinile specimen. The adult would have been closer to the end of its productive life cycle and the logical selection for viable genetic mapping and dissection.

As the worms are hermophridites and can self impregnate, researchers still have 4 to 10 breeders available for herd establishment even with dissecting the adult to acquire species specific species dna and data,

Within two reproductive cycles of 18 to 28 days the control herd will be between 12 and 24 while researchers have adequate DNA samples to identify other close genus capable of producing throwbacks to this species or near identical cross breeds.

Got a question here. How do you find an "extinct" species?

ninny,

Good point. All I can surmise is some smart folks with letters behind their names thought extinct sounded better than " we found a species we misplaced among the thousands of species with the genus and family. None of us wants to say we were the one who forgot where we put it.".

Course I don't care about letters behind my name and just call it like it looks to me :shrug:

Shrek said:

ninny,

Good point. All I can surmise is some smart folks with letters behind their names thought extinct sounded better than " we found a species we misplaced among the thousands of species with the genus and family. None of us wants to say we were the one who forgot where we put it.".

Course I don't care about letters behind my name and just call it like it looks to me :shrug:

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I'll buy that...


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Well, irregardless, I have to say...

That sucker would catch one big fish!!!

beccachow said:

Yup, we are AWESOME caretakers of our world.

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Read up on the great Auk ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Auk

The last pair, found incubating an egg, was killed there on 3 July 1844, with Jón Brandsson and Sigurður Ísleifsson strangling the adults and Ketill Ketilsson smashing the egg with his boot.[48] However, a later claim of a live individual sighted in 1852 on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland has been accepted by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN)

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Makes me want to cry, palani.

The same thing happened to the marsupial Tasmanian Tiger (Thylacine) - exterminated by bounty hunters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thylacine

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They found live ones that were intact?? Wow! That is close to where I live....I am amazed they found any....and I cannot believe they killed it. They could have done a DNA analysis instead. Dummies....

They could have done a DNA analysis instead. Dummies....

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If they could have, I feel sure they would have.

This part was interesting:

"Last month's discoveries followed the development of a new high-tech worm shocking probe that was stuck in the ground and used electricity to push worms toward the surface. The probe was deployed starting last summer, and proved far less lethal to worms than sticking shovels into the ground to dig them up, Johnson-Maynard said."

What is so high-tech about a worm shocking probe? Those were common over 40 years ago and I still have my FIL's homemade one in my garage. He's been dead 20 years.

Reminds me of the SNL skit, where Emily Litella(Gilda Radner) has the weekend update: "What's all this FUSS I keep hearing... about endangered feces? Now, that's outrageous!! Why -- why are FECES endangered?! How can you POSSIBLY run out of such a thing?! Why -- why, just look around you, you can see it ALL OVER the place!! Besides, who wants to SAVE THAT, anyway?! My goodness, where would we KEEP it?! It's DANGEROUS, especially in the Summer!! Then -- then, it could REALLY hit the fan!! "

This is why people seek out religion. The human mind thinks they can comprehend things, it gives up and resorts to gawd. My point? We really dont understand #@&* about our planet, and never will fully understand it. So time to seek out gawd.



Jeff

Jeff, this is definitely NOT why I choose to follow God. I choose to follow Him, but not because I don't understand the world around me!

Bearfootfarm said:

If they could have, I feel sure they would have.

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Look, if we can run a DNA type on a goat for about $100, they can afford to do it on a worm.

The fact that they consider electric probes "high tech" when I was reading about it in old Mother Earth Newss magazines 20 years ago should be an indication that something is amiss here.

These worms reach 3 feet long and there are dead specimens that size that have been found, along with other dead pieces of worms. Apparently albino GPEs also have been photographed.