http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16068581
Wow, I hope they can do this. This would be really cool.
Scientists plan to clone Woolly Mammoth
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16068581
Wow, I hope they can do this. This would be really cool.
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I doubt it would work, if it's really to the advanced level the article states, but even if it is, and even if they can, I think it would be a bad idea.
I hope it works. It's kind of freaky to consider that all those awesome animals - mammoths, wooly rhinos, giant deers, sabre tooth cats, cave lions, etc - died out almost within living human memory. If those species had been able to survive only a few thousand years longer, we could still see them in zoos today.
It's not like dinosaurs, those great animals went extinct just on the brink of modern human culture. When the last mammoth died, the great egyptian pyramids had been standing for centuries already - think about that.
It's not like dinosaurs, those great animals went extinct just on the brink of modern human culture. When the last mammoth died, the great egyptian pyramids had been standing for centuries already - think about that.
Well, how many tigers or hippos have you observed in the wild? I prefer animals living in their natural habitat too, but that's not where I would generally have a chance to look at them.
This is unlike what Ian Malcolm was worried about in Jurassic Park. Even he seemed to begrudgingly accept that bringing back creatures who died out due to human predation might be acceptable, but argued that dinos didn't fall into the same category. Mammoths, on the other hand, do fit into that category, being among the first animal species to have been driven to extinction by man. As such. I find it ironically appropriate that will likely be one of the first species to be resurrected from extinction by man.
I think it is a bad idea.
There isn't a natural environment to put mammoths back into anymore. The best they could expect could expect is a life in captivity.
Now if a thylacine could be clone that would probably be a different matter as the species could be reintoduced into the wild in Tasmania without the ecology being upset.
The biggest problem with cloning a thylacine is the lack of a surrogate species and the fact that there would be very little genetic diversity within cloned species.
There isn't a natural environment to put mammoths back into anymore. The best they could expect could expect is a life in captivity.
Now if a thylacine could be clone that would probably be a different matter as the species could be reintoduced into the wild in Tasmania without the ecology being upset.
The biggest problem with cloning a thylacine is the lack of a surrogate species and the fact that there would be very little genetic diversity within cloned species.
Modern paleontology has more or less come to the conclusion that man didn't have much impact on mammoths. It was climate change that killed them.
I think it would be cruel to try. You don't quite know what you'll end up with.
Uhm, a wholly mammoth?
Seriously though, i dunno how cloning works but as long as they cant clone a male and female mammoth, the species will remain dead.
No!They have been long gone, by the time the last glaciers around here melted away. This was way before Ancient Egypt.
Nope. Mammoths survived much longer than that in northern Siberia.
These are not arguments, but knee-jerk reactions with no logical basis.
