re: Are we ever going to bring a wooly mammoth to life?

I don’t think it would be a hybrid, a clone is an identical copy of the original animal. A modern elephant would have to carry it though.
The moral for bringing back some animals, like the passenger pidgeon, or the Tasmanian tiger, is we killed them off so we should try to bring them back. I would not have a problem with bringing any of them back.

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they took blood from fossilized mosquitoes to produce big lizards

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I saw that same show. It was more like a six foot turkey.

We should bring back any extinct animal we can. Bc it’s cool.

If I remember right the dr in the podcast said tha their are hundreds of millions of lines of "code" in DNA and they have a couple million of them. They may never be able to clone a mammoth but they might be able to figure out what makes them do well in cold and use crispr to make cold adapted elephants.


I think the genetic difference between mammoths and elephants is similar to that between humans and chimpanzees. That 5% difference gives us Mozart.

You sleep with a fat hairy guy

Do we need North American mammoths now in the age of the global warming?

They could potentially warm things up. They would destroy vegetation that keeps sunlight from hitting he soil

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I hear they're too busy right now trying to resurrect LSU athletics

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I’d like to see a giant sloth. I mean wtf

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Fun fact: Wooly mammoths were still roaming the Earth when the Egyptian pyramids were being built.

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that is actually a pretty interesting point...I didn't realize that there was such an overlap.