Elephants could play key role in bringing mammoths back to life
Scientists believe they could bring mammoths back to life. They now have the complete genetic make-up and think they could resurrect the species by implanting an egg in an elephant. Do you think this should be done? What would we do with the extinct creature? Wouldn’t it be lonely?
“Stephan Schuster, a professor of biochemistry and molecular biology and the project co-leader at Pennsylvania State university, said the discovery could give clues to why the mammoth became extinct while elephants survived. He said: “By deciphering this genome we could, in theory, generate data that one day may help other researchers to bring the woolly mammoth back to life by inserting the uniquely mammoth DNA sequences into the genome of the modern-day elephant. “
(via)Independent.ie
photo credit: Travis S.
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2 comments
Since the mammoth died out so recently, and to a large part due to humans, I think it’s more justifiable to bring it back to life than dinosaurs. How about the dodo? The passenger pigeon?
However, when I think of all the living people who are hungry, it makes it hard to justify bringing animals back from the dead. Just my $.02.
@Mike – I agree. Or using the same money for elephant conservation.
Do we even have enough of the dinosaur genome to be concerned with that?
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