Current Events > Biotech firm creating Woolly Mammoth embryos

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https://news.yahoo.com/scientists-reincarnating-woolly-mammoth-return-193800409.html

The long-dead woolly mammoth will make its return from extinction by 2027, says Colossal, the biotech company actively working to reincarnate the ancient beast.

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 speciesone the company dubs a cold-resistant elephantbut 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.

Colossal calls the woolly mammoths vast migration patterns an active part of preserving the health of the Arctic, and so bringing the animal back to life can have a beneficial impact on the health of the worlds ecosystem. While Colossal originally hoped to reintroduce the woolly mammoth into Siberia, the company may explore other options based on the current political framework of the world.

The woolly mammoths DNA is a 99.6 percent match of the Asian elephant, which leads Colossal to believe its well on its way toward achieving its goal. In the minds of many, this creature is gone forever, the company says. But not in the minds of our scientists, nor the labs of our company. Were 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.

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.

If Colossal proves successful on reincarnating the woolly mammothditto the thylacine, also known as the Tasmanian tigerexpect a variety of new ethical questions to arise on how to handle the creature and potential reintroduction issues.

Have these fucks never seen Jurassic Park?

I dunno man I get bringing back species humans are responsible for making extinct but Wooly Mammoth had it's time and the world changed too much for it.

Does make you wonder if they're playing with Pandora's Box.

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do they taste good?

RespectWomen posted...

Have these fucks never seen Jurassic Park?

I mean, it wasn't exactly the brachiosaurs that were fucking shit up in that case.

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Hahahaha yes, JP superiority

Imagine being born and your alien-looking caretakers are like sup, welcome to existence. Also youre the only person of your species.

Cant imagine they would stop with 1.

RespectWomen posted...

Hahahaha yes, JP superiority

My man!

"Zombie Woolly Mammoth Infestation" has "late season desperation" plotline written all over it.

But fuck it, at this point why not?

RespectWomen posted...

Cant imagine they would stop with 1.

Sounds like they want to create a herd.

I watched a documentary about this project a couple of years ago, and it also mentioned that bringing the mammoth back would fight climate change, but... it didn't elaborate on exactly how it would do that.

How does it do that?

for sure. They arent going to spend millions of dollars and years of research to make only make 1.

Other species too.

Gobstoppers12 posted...

I watched a documentary about this project a couple of years ago, and it also mentioned that bringing the mammoth back would fight climate change, but... it didn't elaborate on exactly how it would do that.

How does it do that?

Mammoths live in the ice age duh it'll get colder to fight global warming

Gobstoppers12 posted...

it didn't elaborate on exactly how it would do that.

It's all an elaborate plan to trick God into thinking it's still the ice age.

So that new rhino is going to torture safari cars huh

Gobstoppers12 posted...

How does it do that?

Glitch from mammoths existing again reverts us back to the ice age expansion

Gobstoppers12 posted...

I watched a documentary about this project a couple of years ago, and it also mentioned that bringing the mammoth back would fight climate change, but... it didn't elaborate on exactly how it would do that.

How does it do that?

Mammoths are from the ice age, so they're just naturally colder, of course. Making a bunch of mammoths is like dropping ice cubes into the earth!

Sure let's bring back giant elephants nothing can possibli go wrong.

It's a clone. Even if it's brought back the species is still extinct.

So they are gonna bring them back and sell them to zoos? Sounds like they should just leave them extinct if thats the case

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Half the people here became their mother, grats.

Yeah, yeah, but the posters in this topic were so preoccupied with whether or not they could equate this to Jurassic Park that they didn't stop to think if they should!

Point being, there are some similarities, but bringing back giant herbivores to (supposedly) help combat climate change isn't exactly the same motivation as bringing back flesh-eating dinos to sell amusement park tickets. In fact, Malcolm addresses this right after the oft-quoted line with the 'condors' argument; he didn't seem to have an objection to bringing back species that were driven to extinction by the actions of mankind, and while climate change and diminished habitat hurt the mammoths tremendously, overhunting by humans is likely what sealed their fate.

RespectWomen posted...

Have these fucks never seen Jurassic Park?

Jurassic Park should never be cited since it was sooo wrong.
Trex is a giant chicken not a dragon.

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Jurassic Park is a movie about humans intentionally sabotaging shit. Prehistoric animals regardless of containment status do not threaten humans in any way. We have really big guns and they don't.

A bigger problem to worry about is that it might introduce strange diseases that we have no idea how to deal with.

masterpug53 posted...

Yeah, yeah, but the posters in this topic were so preoccupied with whether or not they could equate this to Jurassic Park that they didn't stop to think if they should!

Point being, there are some similarities, but bringing back giant herbivores to (supposedly) help combat climate change isn't exactly the same motivation as bringing back flesh-eating dinos to sell amusement park tickets. In fact, Malcolm addresses this right after the oft-quoted line with the 'condors' argument; he didn't seem to have an objection to bringing back species that were driven to extinction by the actions of mankind, and while climate change and diminished habitat hurt the mammoths tremendously, overhunting by humans is likely what sealed their fate.

Well said.

Tyranthraxus posted...

Jurassic Park is a movie about humans intentionally sabotaging shit. Prehistoric animals regardless of containment status do not threaten humans in any way. We have really big guns and they don't.

A bigger problem to worry about is that it might introduce strange diseases that we have no idea how to deal with.

Yea if we raised T-rex from embryo it would be like a pet chicken on a farm.
Probably never attack humans and would see humans as daddy and mommy.
Chicken in wild are vicious predators too.

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Pretty sure that is an Asian elephant and not even a bull.
Tyranthraxus posted...

A bigger problem to worry about is that it might introduce strange diseases that we have no idea how to deal with.

Wat

You think they have diseases stored in their dna or something?

Alteres posted...

You think they have diseases stored in their dna or something?

Would be like virus mutate inside them due to their ancient anatomy I guess.

Alteres posted...

Wat

You think they have diseases stored in their dna or something?

Diseases mutate when they jump from organism to organism. Take rabies for example. It comes from bats. But if a bat gives it to a dog, and the dog passes it on to you, that version of rabies is much more severe and aggressive.

Could be benign bacteria all modern mammals bodies evolved to live with considerwd good but gets into ancient mammoth and goes nuts and becomes evil and then human catch it.
But our body thinks it is still good and doesn't fight it....

Woolassic Park

Humans did coexist with mammoths up until relatively recent times in our evolution so most of that is baseless, on top of that the mutation risk would be the same as it would be for the thousands of already existent mammal species.

agoat posted...

According to the company, they will decelerate the melting of arctic permafrost (preventing the emission of greenhouse gases trapped within the permafrost) and revert overshrubbed forests back into natural arctic grasslands, fostering an ecosystem that could maintain its own defenses against climate change.

How exactly are they doing this?

Like goats manage lawncare I imagine.

I would prefer humanity's doom coming from bio-chimeras and not climate change or a pandemic or something lame like that. We had a good thing going when we accidentally created killer bees and released them into the wild - just do more of that, but bigger.