Scientists may use genetic engineering and cloning to bring back woolly mammoths

[terry78]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...y-mammoths-could-de-extinct-2-years/98089576/


It's like people watch Jurassic Park and get the entirely wrong message.

 

[Consona]

I certainly hope there will be mammoths and dinosaurs again thanks to genetic engineering.

 

[DJ Kornphlake]

What a great choice of species to bring back during global warming.

 

[jokesonm3]

Wonder what mammoth meat tastes like

 

[2kt09]

Waste of resources.

 

[Pink Ranger]

Cool, I can use a mammoth to wash my car, like on the Flinstones.

 

[BestGirl]

I've always wanted to see the dodo make a comeback.

 

[Arachnerd]

It's not dinosaurs, so I don't care.

 

[Pink Ranger]

I want the smilodon to come back. I think lions have gotten kind of cocky these past few years, they need a reality check.

 

[SWAT]

What a great choice of species to bring back during global warming.

It might help actually...

Without grasslands to insulate the tundra’s permafrost, the permafrost is melting, releasing greenhouse gases that have been trapped for tens and hundreds of thousands of years.

"Mammoths, like elephants in Africa today, were the engineers of grasslands keeping trees from growing onto the plains and dispersing large amounts of nutrients over immense distances."

 

[Tacit Ronin]

But mammoths existed before 6'000 years ago. We all know that the earth is only 6'000 years old. This is a trick.

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

I have some questions about bringing back species from thousands of years ago (and certainly millions of years ago) when the climate was completely different. Are these things going to be able to live good, healthy lives? Something that only went extinct in recent times like the dodo or Great Auk, sure.

 

[Black Narcissus]

Can we start with something simpler?

The dodo bird.

Tasmanian tiger last seen in 1936.

 

[terry78]

Scientists go big or go home.

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

Can we start with something simpler?

The dodo bird.

Tasmanian tiger last seen in 1936.

How about the Ivory-billed Woodpecker? I'd love to see one of those.

 

[jokesonm3]

Bring back Dragons

 

[Spider-Fan83]

you wanna see a woolly mammoth just pump some elephants full of steroids and rogaine

 

[Greens]

Harvard professor George Church—who New Scientist calls a "maverick geneticist"—is leading a "de-extinction" team that says it's about two years away from creating a hybrid embryo combining mammoth traits with Asian elephant DNA.

Maverick geneticist!

 

[terry78]

I think that's one of the names of a mecha from Gundam.

 

[SWAT]

Can we start with something simpler?

The dodo bird.

Tasmanian tiger last seen in 1936.

Are there any close relatives they can use?

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Now that I know why they chose this species

releasing a herd of mammophants into the Arctic could fight climate change by keeping the tundra from thawing.

"They will punch down the snow in wintertime allowing cold air to come in," Church explains.

Why are they so confident this will happen as planned? Do they plan on controlling the aging process?

 

[Breogan]

Cool, I can use a mammoth to wash my car, like on the Flinstones.

Can't wait till they bring back the baby-mammoth-vacuum-cleaner!

 

[Lencho01]

Wild.

 

[terry78]

It's a living.

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

Are there any close relatives they can use?

Probably not. The closest living relative is the Nicobar pigeon.