Not Extinct NOT EXTINCT!

[mishalak]

The Ivory Billed Woodpecker is still around! They caught one on film! W00T!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4493825.stm

Comments

[boywhocantsayno.livejournal.com]

Very cool!

And I like how they say they won't find a dodo. I'm sure they would have said the same thing about the ivory-billed woodpecker until now. ;) (I know, I know... completely different issue. But still, there could be a small population somewhere isolated. Or maybe at some time in the future, they'll be brought back through cloning like in Jasper Fforde's books.)

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

I remember reading a story where they discover Passenger Pigeons and it turns out a bright boy is releasing them after cloning from samples preserved in alcohol. Which unlike formaldehyde doesn't damage DNA. Eventually he's tracked down, and punished for all the right reasons (uncontrolled experiment upon all of us), but he gets off fairly lightly because people are mostly happy.

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

Woah, AWESOME!!! That just totally made my day; thanks!

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

You're welcome.

[rautenkranzmt.livejournal.com]

was it supposed to be?

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

Dude the bird hasn't actually been seen since 1944. So 1944 to 2004, that's sixty years since anyone had seen one. They were pretty sure it was gone.

[gomeza.livejournal.com]

That made my day too. I was over due for some good news that would actually move me.