Posted on 03/07/2024 8:55:21 AM PST by bitt
The woolly mammoth could roam the Earth once again.
That’s the goal of Colossal Biosciences as the biotech company announced a major breakthrough Wednesday in its mission to revive the 6-ton, 16-foot animal back from extinction.
The Dallas-based company said it has created a set of stem cells from an Asian elephant in hopes of bringing back a creature that would be eerily similar to the woolly mammoth, according to reports.
“This is probably the most significant step in the early stages of this project,” said geneticist and company co-founder George Church, a Harvard University professor, according to NPR.
The woolly mammoth went the way of the dodo bird about 4,000 years ago, and while the company wouldn’t bring back the same exact species, it would create an animal that has similar traits like a heavy fur coat and plenty of fat to withstand freezing temperatures.
“It will walk like a Woolly Mammoth, look like one, sound like one, but most importantly it will be able to inhabit the same ecosystem previously abandoned by the Mammoth’s extinction,” the company said.
The company’s goal, however lofty, is to eventually genetically tinker a stem cell’s nucleus with genes from a mammoth, then merge that with an elephant egg, the Washington Post reported. Then the embryo would be placed in an elephant surrogate who would hopefully give birth.
But not everyone is on board with Colossal’s goal.
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see also
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/northern-tuskers-scientists-one-colossal-step-closer-de/
Northern Tuskers: Scientists One Colossal Step Closer to ‘De-Extinction’ of the Wooly Mammoth – But Why?
Paul Seran
Haven’t we seen this movie before???
That way, the "Royal We" won't need those nasty tribal people to manage disturbance. And said "We" will then be able to extract resources uncontested.
“Pleistocene Park”
I’d rather pay to de-extinct mammoths than fund $1 million homosexual s&m parties.
Let me guess; they will be classified as an “endangered species,” and people will lose their property rights wherever they are released.
And all the diseases they may possess. Sorry...dangerous.
Forget the Woolies, I vote for Raptors and for them to be released in DC.
They think the movie JURASSIC PARK was an instruction manual but evidently did not stay to see the end. /s
As someone else ask “WHY?”
They’re already there, in $3000 suits/female outfits.
Just because we can doesn’t mean we should.
The woolly booger went extinct for a reason. We need the varmint to return like we need 4 mor years of Joe Bidenbama.
Just what the world needs.... /sarc
awesome! Wooly Mammoth burgers are delicious!
[[The woolly booger went extinct for a reason.]]
Yes, because they were delicious!
Big deal. Bring back the Republican elephant.
And a book.
Could they get Reagan spun back up for 2028?
Never heard of African or Asian elephants being a disease vector for humans or domestic animals. My guess is their metabolism is far too different, unlike pigs, whose metabolism on a molecular level is very similar to ours because we’re both omnivorous mammals.
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