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  2. De-extinction - Wikipedia

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    The great auk went extinct in the 1800s due to overhunting by humans for food. The last two known great auks lived on an island near Iceland and were clubbed to death by sailors. There have been no known sightings since. [95] The great auk has been identified as a good candidate for de-extinction by Revive and Restore, a non-profit organization.

  3. Great auk - Wikipedia

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    He associates the great auk with the mythical roc as a method of formally returning the main character to a sleepy land of fantasy and memory. [71] W. S. Merwin mentions the great auk in a short litany of extinct animals in his poem "For a Coming Extinction", one of the seminal poems from his 1967 collection, "The Lice". [72]

  4. Geirfuglasker - Wikipedia

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    The rough surf around the island usually made it inaccessible to humans, and one of the last refuges for the flightless bird the great auk (which was also called "garefowl" — "geirfugl" in Icelandic). In a volcanic eruption in 1830 this rock submerged. The surviving great auks moved to a nearby island called Eldey and were wiped out by humans ...

  5. Talk:Great auk - Wikipedia

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    Saying "the Great auk is extinct" is a correct statement, sure, and saying "the Great auk was extinct" is incorrect, since it's still extinct (one supposes). But saying "the Great auk is a flightless bird " is odd in a realist sense since, well, there is no Great auk, at least not a living one.

  6. Pinguinus alfrednewtoni - Wikipedia

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    Pinguinus alfrednewtoni is an extinct species of auk related to the great auk known from fossils that were discovered in the Pliocene Yorktown Formation of North Carolina.Like the great auk, it was a large flightless diving bird that used its wings to propel itself forward underwater.

  7. Man sentenced for cloning and breeding giant sheep - AOL

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    An 81-year-old Montana man was sentenced Monday to six months in federal prison for illegally using tissue and testicles from large sheep hunted in Central Asia and the U.S. to create hybrid sheep ...

  8. Commercial animal cloning - Wikipedia

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    ViaGen began by offering cloning to the livestock and equine industry in 2003, [20] and later as ViaGen Pets included cloning of cats and dogs in 2016. [21] ViaGen's subsidiary, start licensing, owns a cloning patent which is licensed to their only competitor as of 2018, who also offers animal cloning services. [22] (Viagen is a subsidiary of ...

  9. Gen AI apps are cloning your likeness without consent—and ...

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    Instead, I came to learn thanks to an investigation by Sophia Smith Galer that an app had been used to clone real people without their knowledge or permission, eroding their autonomy and ...