Your Neanderthal, here. Photo: Erich Ferdinand

21st Century brutes will crave escargot, eschew dairy

With the whole world gone mad (again) for everything cryptid (the Boston Phoenix attributes this to our pressing need for Great Depression 2.0 distractions), New Scientist has cooked up a list of DNA-sequenced species to be raised from the dead.

Neanderthals, naturally, top the list of humanoid species.

Harvard archaeologists, meanwhile, believe they know what might have killed-off the Neanderthal in the first place: lactose intolerance. The Harvard folks also suggested the Neanderthal enjoyed many different kinds of food, including escargot.

To revive a long-dead species scientists would have to recover enough DNA from a well-preserved specimen and find a suitable surrogate species similar to that of the extinct animal in which to grow the new baby from an embryo.

“It’s hard to say that something will never ever be possible,”said Svante Pääbo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, who is sequencing the Neanderthal genome.

“But it would require technologies so far removed from what we currently have that I cannot imagine how it would be done.”

via Extinct Animals Could Be Brought Back To Life – ROGUEGOVERNMENT.COM.