Sunday, April 7, 2013

Woolly Mammoth Websites

Start with one of the articles here, then click on the links IN the articles that look helpful.  If you find a great website/article that isn't here, please post it in the comments with your name and grade.  Thanks and happy hunting! :) 



De-extinction Site for National Geographic--LOTS of great articles and background for pro/con sides.  Excellent photographs.  
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/deextinction/

Short article on de-extinction from Scientific American (great science source!), focusing on biodiversity. 
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=what-is-the-de-extinction-movement-all-about

Passenger Pigeons are focused on here (and the problems with cloning birds) 
Efforts to Resuscitate Extinct Species May Spawn a New Era of the Hybrid (also from Scientific American) 
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=lost-species-revived-from-dna-and-restored-to-nature


Will We Kill Off Today's Animals If We Revive Extinct Ones?
De-extinction hopes to revive mammoths, gastric frogs and other missing species, but it might undermine the conservation of creatures that still survive (the headline says it all!  Great article and not too long)

Humans Alone Wiped Out Tasmanian Tiger, Study Says 


De-extinction: Can we revive the woolly mammoth?
Should we bring back these species? And what would we do them? (some interesting links in the middle/end of this article)


3 comments:

  1. www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=humans-alone-wiped-out-tiger

    i want this one
    and its gabe

    ReplyDelete
  2. http://www.uwec.edu/jolhm/EH4/Extinction/CausesLink.html Isabel,Selena,Diana 8th .

    ReplyDelete
  3. this is jazmin and stephanie
    we are asking for you to print out the artilce
    http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=what-is-the-de-extinction-movement-all-about
    thank you!! ^_^

    ReplyDelete