{"id":1698,"date":"2025-02-04T16:42:10","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/07\/scientists-hope-to-revive-giant-beavers\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T16:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:10","slug":"scientists-hope-to-revive-giant-beavers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/scientists-hope-to-revive-giant-beavers\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists hope to revive giant beavers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2024-10-07 16:07:31<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Scientists are planning to bring giant beavers back from extinction.<BR><br \/>\nBoffins have made progress in their attempts to revive the dodo and woolly mammoth and are now targeting the 5-foot tall North American beaver, which is thought to have died out around 10,000 years ago because of climate.<BR><br \/>\nRecovered skulls suggest that the buck-toothed creatures were able to swim underwater for lengthy periods of time and Professor Beth Shapiro &#8211; chief of the US revival specialists Colossal Biosciences &#8211; says they are on a &#8220;very long list&#8221; of extinct animals she hopes to bring back.<BR><br \/>\nShe said: &#8220;I would like to work on all of them because I&#8217;d like to learn more about the biology of these animals.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Carnivores would be cool. A giant beaver that lived in North America which would have stood up to be about 5ft tall. That would be funny.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangpremier.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Visit Bang Premier (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024-10-07 16:07:31 Scientists are planning to bring giant beavers back from extinction. Boffins have made progress in their attempts to revive the dodo and woolly mammoth and are now targeting&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1699,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1700,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions\/1700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}