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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kirk Roth" data-source="post: 2686302" data-attributes="member: 85015">You're forgetting that the big incentive against resurrection is the cost - it is far cheaper to set aside habitat than to recreate an organism.Behold the extinct gastric-brooding frog - five years of research just to resurrect it to blastula stage:<a href="http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/345875" target="_blank">http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/345875</a>  (or see blogs everywhere - I cannot find any primary material though)If there is this much trouble cloning the workings of the fairly malleable (for a vertebrate) amphibian cell structure, our pigeon has a long way to go.  Then again, there was that Ibex from a goat cell a few years ago...</blockquote>