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Last year, the Dallas-based firm scored an additional $60 million in funding to continue the, well, mammoth gene-editing work it started in 2021. If successful, not only will Colossal bring back an extinct species—one the company dubs a cold-resistant elephant—but it will also reintroduce the woolly mammoth to the same ecosystem in which it once lived in an effort to fight climate change, according to a recent Medium post.

"...We’re already in the process of the de-extinction of the Woolly Mammoth. Our teams have collected viable DNA samples and are editing the genes that will allow this wonderful megafauna to once again thunder through the Arctic.”
The woolly mammoth’s DNA is a 99.6 percent match of the Asian elephant, which leads Colossal to believe it’s well on its way toward achieving its goal.

Through gene editing, Colossal scientists will eventually create an embryo of a woolly mammoth. They will place the embryo in an African elephant to take advantage of its size and allow it to give birth to the new woolly mammoth. The eventual goal is to then repopulate parts of the Arctic with the new woolly mammoth and strengthen local plant life with the migration patterns and dietary habits of the beast.

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I’m not a fan of that. And who says the mammoth would be able to survive this much warmer climate anyways? They’d be stuck to the taiga/tundra regions and probably either starve or out compete the other herbivores of the region like the musk ox.

If they’re trying to bring em back just to keep em in captivity, that just seems unnecessary and cruel.

Spend the money to try and save the endangered animals we currently have that are worth saving(which means let the panda and koala go, they’d be long gone without humans helping them since their way of life isn’t sustainable on their own)
 
Illustrious Potentate said:
I’m not a fan of that. And who says the mammoth would be able to survive this much warmer climate anyways? They’d be stuck to the taiga/tundra regions and probably either starve or out compete the other herbivores of the region like the musk ox.

If they’re trying to bring em back just to keep em in captivity, that just seems unnecessary and cruel.

Spend the money to try and save the endangered animals we currently have that are worth saving(which means let the panda and koala go, they’d be long gone without humans helping them since their way of life isn’t sustainable on their own)
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Hold up now, we don't know how potentially delicious these mammoths are. Could be the answer to world hunger
 
Illustrious Potentate said:
I’m not a fan of that. And who says the mammoth would be able to survive this much warmer climate anyways? They’d be stuck to the taiga/tundra regions and probably either starve or out compete the other herbivores of the region like the musk ox.

If they’re trying to bring em back just to keep em in captivity, that just seems unnecessary and cruel.

Spend the money to try and save the endangered animals we currently have that are worth saving(which means let the panda and koala go, they’d be long gone without humans helping them since their way of life isn’t sustainable on their own)
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They are talking about releasing it in the wild ... to help with repopulating vegetation.

The eventual goal is to then repopulate parts of the Arctic with the new woolly mammoth and strengthen local plant life with the migration patterns and dietary habits of the beast.
 
Hu War Yu said:
Hold up now, we don't know how potentially delicious these mammoths are. Could be the answer to world hunger
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True, but you think those Russians are gonna let em live long with all that ivory?
 
My question is who is going to teach a young mammoth how to survive? It's not like the mother african elephant is prepared for or knows how to traverse and survive in the artic.
 
dikowt dowg said:
My question is who is going to teach a young mammoth how to survive? It's not like the mother african elephant is prepared for or knows how to traverse and survive in the artic.
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It’s like throwing a kid in the deep end to teach em how to swim. They’ll figure it out or die
 
dikowt dowg said:
My question is who is going to teach a young mammoth how to survive? It's not like the mother african elephant is prepared for or knows how to traverse and survive in the artic.
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Just find some secluded island put these creatures on. Maybe some day they could make a theme park out of it......
 
dikowt dowg said:
Last year, the Dallas-based firm scored an additional $60 million in funding to continue the, well, mammoth gene-editing work it started in 2021. If successful, not only will Colossal bring back an extinct species—one the company dubs a cold-resistant elephant—but it will also reintroduce the woolly mammoth to the same ecosystem in which it once lived in an effort to fight climate change, according to a recent Medium post.

"...We’re already in the process of the de-extinction of the Woolly Mammoth. Our teams have collected viable DNA samples and are editing the genes that will allow this wonderful megafauna to once again thunder through the Arctic.”
The woolly mammoth’s DNA is a 99.6 percent match of the Asian elephant, which leads Colossal to believe it’s well on its way toward achieving its goal.

Through gene editing, Colossal scientists will eventually create an embryo of a woolly mammoth. They will place the embryo in an African elephant to take advantage of its size and allow it to give birth to the new woolly mammoth. The eventual goal is to then repopulate parts of the Arctic with the new woolly mammoth and strengthen local plant life with the migration patterns and dietary habits of the beast.

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If they are successful, where will this wind up? What else will they want to try to bring back?
 
Dolemite censored said:
If they are successful, where will this wind up? What else will they want to try to bring back?
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With dna...it looks like they can bring you and me back. And why wouldn't they?
 
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