The Real Jurassic Park - Wooly Mammoths and other Extinct Animals Could be Cloned by 2028!


 Scientists have been talking about bringing back the Mammoth for over a decade now but it seems that a Texas company has now put the cloning of extinct species into high gear.

Of course we have seen how this movie ends ...

"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should..."

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From the Daily Star:
Scientists are attempting to recreate the extinct beasts by combining genetic material from the Arctic permafrost with DNA from Asian elephants.

Boffins at the biotech company Colossal Biosciences are hoping that the first mammoth calf could be born by 2028.

The firm's website states: "Bringing back the woolly mammoth back means bringing back a better Earth."

The experts believe that the newly-created animal will be a cold-resistant elephant that has all the biological features of a woolly mammoth.

However, critics of the process argue that cloning will do nothing to solve conservation issues.

Joseph Bennett, from Carleton University in Canada, said: "I'm not against cloning but I am against trotting it out as a solution to conservation problems or even climate change."

From the Fort Worth Star Telegram:

Remember the organization that in 2021 announced it was going to bring the woolly mammoth back from extinction? Its leaders are building a to-do list of species they hope to revive, and some of them aren’t even fully extinct yet.

Colossal Biosciences, the Texas-based company using genetic science to revive the woolly mammoth, announced Tuesday it will also bring the dodo back. The organization is partnering with the Mauritian Wildlife Foundation to reintroduce the flightless birds to the wild.

The company currently expects the first woolly mammoth calves to be born sometime in 2028, and thinks the dodo bird will be reintroduced to its once-native habitat even before that.

A big, hairy elephant and a flightless bird whose name has become synonymous with stupidity may not sound as exciting as giant lizard predators grown from DNA extracted from a mosquito in amber (which Colossal CEO and co-founder Ben Lamm assured the Star-Telegram would be impossible with today’s technology anyway), but being thrilling in that sense isn’t the goal for the brains behind the company.

They believe the animals could have positive impacts on the ecosystems they used to call home and even improve lives and ecosystems across the globe.


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