Which extinct animal should we bring back?

Ice Age giants, island birds and one animal that has been gone for 66 million years. Pick with the consequences in mind.

1. 1
   Woolly mammoth

   The Ice Age elephant that survived on Wrangel Island until about 4,000 years ago.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Quagga

   A half-striped zebra of South Africa that vanished in 1883.
   551pts
3. 3
   Passenger pigeon

   Once North America's most numerous bird, extinct since Martha died in 1914.
   509pts
4. 4
   Woolly rhinoceros

   The shaggy two-horned rhino of the Ice Age steppe.
   509pts
5. 5
   Glyptodon

   A car-sized armadillo relative with a domed shell.
   509pts
6. 6
   Steller's sea cow

   A giant Bering Sea manatee relative hunted out within 27 years of its discovery.
   407pts
7. 7
   Great auk

   The North Atlantic's flightless seabird, last seen alive in 1844.
   407pts
8. 8
   Aurochs

   The wild ancestor of domestic cattle, extinct in Poland since 1627.
   344pts
9. 9
   Irish elk

   A giant deer with antlers spanning up to 3.6 metres.
   344pts
10. 10
    Thylacine

    The striped Tasmanian marsupial predator whose last known animal died in 1936.
    271pts
11. 11
    Moa

    New Zealand's giant flightless birds, some over 3.5 metres tall.
    271pts
12. 12
    Megatherium

    A South American ground sloth the size of an elephant.
    271pts
13. 13
    Dodo

    The flightless Mauritius pigeon wiped out by the late 1600s.
    271pts
14. 14
    Haast's eagle

    The largest eagle ever known, which hunted moa in New Zealand.
    185pts
15. 15
    Tyrannosaurus rex

    The Late Cretaceous tyrant, gone for 66 million years and far beyond the reach of any DNA.
    0pts
16. 16
    Dire wolf

    The heavy Ice Age wolf of the Americas, best known from the La Brea Tar Pits.
    0pts
17. 17
    Smilodon

    The saber-toothed cat that hunted Ice Age bison and ground sloths.
    0pts

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