Sea Minks (extinct) question (survive, pet, look)

[Mr_Nilsson]

Hello everyone and i have to start to say happy new year
don't know if this is the right part of the forum for this question (mods fell free to move)
I have a small question about an extinct animal the Sea Mink "Neovison macrodon" are the any museum in the Us that have any stuffed Sea Mink on display? Or do the exist any photos of the animal or the fur? i been looking everywhere for some hard info but i cant find anything ,



Link
The Extinction Website - Species Info - Sea Mink

thanks for the help and sorry for my bad English

[arctichomesteader]

Everything I've ever read says no complete specimens were ever preserved. Primarily, the specimens that exist are skulls or other bones. There could be some surviving sea mink fur somewhere, but it would be difficult to distinguish from ordinary mink. I've never been able to locate a photograph of one either. Only paintings and drawings. I think being as close to an ordinary American mink as it is it's easy to visualize it. I wish some DNA might have survived because I suspect it could be cloned and brought back if so.

[Mr_Nilsson]

thanks for the replay and i think that you are right, thats there are just few bones left from the animals in museums but you can always hope that there are more part in some dusty museum magazine that have been mixed up with American minks or that someone have an old stuffed Sea Mink in their basement not knowing what it is ,

but if we have a complete skull with teeth then we can extract DNA from the pulp i know it have been done in 400-year-old human teeth, ,i just wish there where more interest to try to bring the animal back to life