De-extinction

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It’s an Asian Elephant with hair, what’s the point?

Cavemen with pointy sticks didn’t eradicate this animal. The Earth did. It’s just going to get eradicated again.

Now the Moa, there’s an animal we should bring back. Cuz it obviously was delicious.
 
It’s an Asian Elephant with hair, what’s the point?

Cavemen with pointy sticks didn’t eradicate this animal. The Earth did. It’s just going to get eradicated again.

Now the Moa, there’s an animal we should bring back. Cuz it obviously was delicious.
How delicious, you say??
 
It’s an Asian Elephant with hair, what’s the point?

Cavemen with pointy sticks didn’t eradicate this animal. The Earth did. It’s just going to get eradicated again.

Now the Moa, there’s an animal we should bring back. Cuz it obviously was delicious.

How delicious, you say??

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It’s an Asian Elephant with hair, what’s the point?

Cavemen with pointy sticks didn’t eradicate this animal. The Earth did. It’s just going to get eradicated again.

Now the Moa, there’s an animal we should bring back. Cuz it obviously was delicious.
Well they talked about the point, which was to help plant life. Not sure I'm buying it though.
 
If they are successful, where will this wind up? What else will they want to try to bring back?
“Your scientists were so caught up with whether they could they didn’t stop to think whether they should.”
 
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.



What about teh mammoth farts, doh?
 
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