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

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