^^ Wishful thinking. I love trilobites. We probably couldn't get a viable sample from any dinosaurs either. That's great.
You're proposing that we go backwards in time, find humpback whales, then bring them foward in time, drop 'em off, and hope to Hell they tell this probe what to do with itself!
I, for one, look forward to eating a mamoth burger with a fried dodo egg on top with a side of bald eagle rotini
Why do folks want to clone extinct creatures so that they could eat the meat or fry it's egg. That is the reason why they became extinct in the first place.
Bald Eagles aren't extinct. You can get that side right now. (But I assume there would be a hefty fine and maybe jail time)
I'd love to see dinosaurs of course, but two others that would be fascinating to me are Smilodon and Megalodon. Large, powerful predators like those just get the adrenaline pumping! Would it be a good idea to do so? Highly doubtful. Unless you want to show up the Discovery channel by releasing a Megalodon in the middle of their fake documentary!
Although I'm for it, on the other hand, would they actually be how they should be? Or would we just make a best guess at how we think they should be. I remember when I read Jurassic Park, there was a discussion about how the Dinosaurs were too aggressive, too fast and how they could change them to be more docile for the visitors to the park and would be more satisfying. Just because we can do a thing, doesn't necessarily mean we must do that thing. Personally, I think we should perfect cloning of animals that haven't become extinct yet.
Yeah, it'd be really cool to clone some of the extinct animals. But there is no longer a place for them in the wild, so they would need to be kept in captivity.