[Music] our planet is facing the greatest extinction of animals since the time of the dinosaurs but this time it's not the meteorite that threatens their lives it's a human being over the last 50 years humans have destroyed almost two-thirds of species you'll never hear the sweet sardinian kika again the orange frog will no longer warn you of the rain with its croaking and team melodrama fans will not be able to tease the tasmanian wolf at the zoo calling him a stripe to jacob but unlike some animals we've lived to see that we can work miracles
with the help of genetic engineering on the 23rd of february this year a sensational event took place australian photographer neil waters posted stunning content on the internet a picture of the very tasmanian wolf that was considered to be extinct 85 years ago it could mean that scientists have already secretly made progress in cloning and we can fix it all but there is another question is it worth doing it [Music] before you answer there's someone i'd like you to meet in order to do this you need to raise your head up this is host's eagle the
largest bird of prey of historical era haas siegel is very similar to the world's largest eagle the harpy eagle only it was twice as heavy and its wingspan was 40 percent larger it lived on new zealand's south island until people ruthlessly exterminated the majestic bird legends say after the maori people exterminated the moa the main source of food for hostile the mega bird began to take revenge on people hunting their young children therefore the maori people had to kill a terrifying bird on the basis of an excuse of self-defense the human being has become the
most dangerous predator and killer of all time but new zealand kids play in the yard without fear of being dragged away by a giant bird perhaps you'd like to clone some other animal from the recently extinct ones how do you like this guy giant short-faced bear it's heavier than the modern rhinoceros 50 bigger than the biggest polar bears and as you can see twice your height to survive it must eat at least 35 pounds of meat per day that means at least one corgi now look who's standing on your right megalania is the largest land
lizard known to science it was as long as a two-story building and weighed as much as the heart of a blue whale but neither it nor the ancient grizzly were able to escape from a human being in the food chain humans became their rivals having destroyed everything that the bear and megalania ate it's quite possible that people just killed these predators when they met them do you think you wouldn't have done it first get to know them but where are they you won't see megalania right away no it's not shy it's just that lizard hunts
in an ambush it will instantly immobilize you by cutting the tendons with its razor sharp teeth have you seen these videos of how to open chips properly by making a cut in the middle of the bag no one even knows that megalania has figured it all out a long time ago it will immediately rip open your belly and start eating you alive it's a pity that such a unique species has become extinct but don't worry at the end of the 90s there was a lot of speculation that megalania had been seen in australia or new
guinea maybe it's still alive without any cloning and here comes the short-faced bear it has no trouble finding you because of its distinctive super sensitive nose look into its chaps its fangs are pointed in different directions similar to a tiger unlike megalania a bear's lateral teeth will effectively cut not only your tendons but also your bones the extermination of such monsters was a necessity for the survival of ancient people but what wrongs did the much vaunted internet star tazmedian wolf do to us thylacine as it's also called became extinct in 1936 which means it was
around when the camera was invented and we can see its real pictures don't be afraid to get closer to it it's like a big cat with an interesting striped coloring look how lovely it yawns its mouth opens at 90 degrees it turns out that this striped cat isn't so harmless and who knows what a human can expect from it i bet you shouldn't put your finger in its mouth in the year 2005 the australian magazine the bulletin offered 1.25 million australian dollars reward to anyone who catches a live thylacine and neil waters president of thylacine
evernote can become a billionaire thanks to the photo of a whole family of thylacines including a cub maybe the thylacine we found is the result of successful experiments by scientists in the field of cloning and soon we'll be able to recover the other recently extinct animals i introduced you to by the way people who are the first to think about it are the scientists from the lazarus project of the university of new south wales they took tissue of a frog that had been dead and frozen since the 1970s scientists successfully implanted it into an egg
of a closely related species of frogs although none of the embryos have survived more than a few days this may be the first step towards turning jurassic park scenario into reality because i think we're forgetting the real heroes the mega animals that went extinct a long time ago and you haven't even heard of them or their superpowers what would be really interesting to renew and place in the park with the resurgent ancient inhabitants is helicoprion this predatory fish is the least favorite tooth fairy's character its teeth had an unusual ability they didn't fall out but
instead turned into a wheel on the lower jaw similar to a pattern with this deadly spiral helicoprion used to arrange paleozoic chainsaw massacre watching helicoprion through the glass of a large aquarium one visitor of the park would be very interested in it that would be steven spielberg he would certainly be inspired to make the next jaws with this character in the lead role unless of course helicoprion gets beaten in this audition by aquilo lomna it has much more chances because on the 18th of march scientists released the news about a preserved fossil of this cretaceous
shark found in the gulf of mexico its special feature pectoral fins that resemble wings and it resembles a funny stingray trapped in the body of a ruthless shark it would be interesting to keep other extinct animals at home instead of the park because now it's very fashionable to have a mini piggy pet instead of a kitten but what about intellidont the behemoth-sized cannibal boar this pet is definitely not for the faint-hearted with its eight-inch fangs the lector pig was not averse to eating its own kind if your dog is not doing its job well you
should know that robbers would surely fit the taste of intellidont hopefully it will spare the owner it's amazing that the only thing that can save these super animals is cloning for all their power they've all failed to avoid extinction and extermination all but one invincible creature honey badger here it is lying there itching the menace of the wild kingdom do you feel like stroking that cute badge i wouldn't advise this this guy's a real maniac the honey badger is listed in the guinness book of records as the most fearless animal not only does it defend
itself with its thick elastic skin that's hard to bite through it also gets into fights and scrapes first the internet star hottie badger stuffel has more than once escaped from its enclosure and no it hasn't escaped into the wild but went to beat other zoo animals the honey badger is the chris brown of the animal kingdom everyone probably has a friend like that who went rogue at a party and couldn't be stopped since honey badger is not a member of the fight club there are no rules for it to fight it uses forbidden techniques it
can viciously attack the face and eyes of its rival well more specifically its victim are you surprised at people who can easily chew popcorn grains honey badger's jaws are so strong that it can eat turtles with a shell and even if it falls into the mouth of a predator let's say into the trap of the fangs of a tasmanian wolf at 90 degrees it still can't swallow the honey badger because it's also very dodgy perhaps you can go to africa and see it up close but it's not a fact that within the very first minutes
of the meeting it won't scratch your eyes out you might be thinking how cool it would be if all the above mentioned guys were as resilient as the honey badger and survived to this day well scientists have been trying to clone the tasmanian wolf since 1999. three years later its dna was extracted but it was found to be unusable and after six years scientists managed to make some of the genes of thylacine work in the mouse embryo but none of the developing embryos have turned into a wolf then the scientists quietened down and we could
breathe a sigh of relief because we had the confidence that we couldn't get into its chaps which opens like an electric need grill but suddenly in 2021 these pictures of a tasmanian wolf walking quietly through the woods of tasmania maybe the experiments got out of hand and soon there will be photos of other extinct animals on the web who are walking near us now we just don't notice them what animal besides the tasmanian wolf would you like to notice in your backyard this is the character you met a few short minutes ago the ancient short-faced
bear its genome is well preserved and can be restored in the future the problem is finding a surrogate mother as the closest relative weighs about 10 times less there may be genomes of other ancient animals which one would you bring back to life a cannibal pig a chainsaw fish a baby killer eagle why shouldn't human beings resurrect themselves neanderthal is the most viable option for cloning there's even a matching surrogate species that's us however the un declaration prohibits the cloning of humans considering it unethical well would you take responsibility for raising a neanderthal do you
still want to resurrect someone who write in the comments
