Mammoths will roam new Jurassic Park-style theme park with cave lions...in 10 years,...

The Sun ^ | Sept 18, 2018 | Patrick Knox and Will Stewart

[Ancesthntr]

[Ancesthntr]

“Along with other measures, it’s hoped the woolly mammoths will create an environment which could stop Siberia’s permafrost melting and then releasing billions of tons of greenhouse gases.”

He said: “Cold-resistant elephants would flatten the insulating snow and supporting trees in winter and favour the highly heat reflective grass in summer. “They would also help capture new carbon by enhancing the photosynthetic capacity of the vegetation.” Should Prof Church and his Harvard uni team successfully clone woolly mammoths they would be taken to an extraordinary Ice Age safari park currently being developed by Russian scientists.

Called the Pleistocene Park, the 20,000 hectare zone in the furthest stretches of remote Siberia has been created in a bid to recreate an Ice-Age ecosystem. Boffins believe grazing woolly mammoths would also compact the snow in the winter and grass in the summer all of which lowers the permafrost temperature.

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It is nice to know that academics are still able to get their hands on some really great drugs.

A few dozen, or even a few thousand, woolly mammoths tramping down the snow and grass in a 20,000 hectare park is going to have a snowball’s chance on the surface of the Sun to stop ALL of the permafrost in Siberia from melting? Yeah, they’re on drugs...either that, or so f’ing stupid that they should immediately be fired.

[PIF]

Good find. Those long faced bears do look a bit small however ...

[Hatteras]

If the woolly mammoths only had that ability to start with.... Will these be "new and improved" woolly mammoths with real foot-stomping action from Mattel™ ?

...and think of the Coca-Cola commercials. Do polar bears eat woolly mammoths?

[jmcenanly]

I am certain that a thorough background check might prevent a Dennis Nedry from coming in.

[Ransomed]

Yeah, that little problem of inventing an artificial womb might be tough. Usually with these stories they talk about implanting an embryo in some living animal, to my understanding.

Freegards

[bgill]

Hellarysauras.

[bgill]

Free the Mammoths!!!! They deserve to roam free!!!

[ETL]

Why stop there? Clone some neanderthals to put in the park and we can have a real show.

Let the games begin...

[ETL]

Hellarysauras

[shotgun]

The horses probably died out because the grasses are covered in snow... unless they plan on trucking hay into the herd, they most likely won’t survive the Siberian winters...

[lonevoice]

Agree, the pictures are amazing. The concept makes me uneasy, but I’d still be excited to see it.

[Jack Hammer]

Sounds fascinating; on behalf of all Freep Old Farts, let me say, ‘I wish I could be around to see it.’

[CrazyIvan]

You think they believe this crap? It’s just a way to make their harebrained idea a holy cause by allying it with the global warming movement.

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 09/18/2018. Thanks ETL.

[bert]

Viagra on the hoof

[DariusBane]

Lol fantastic! Well done!

[Redcitizen]

That’s a lot of freezer burn.

[Redcitizen]

“When scientists decide they are smarter then mother nature it is a problem. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.”

According to that logic, mankind should be living in caves without technology, modern medicine or first world sanitation.

[gnarledmaw]

Because the Russians know that AGW is a hoax and are anticipating the coming cold. Billions of pounds of self sustaining protein on the hoof is cheaper to maintain and goes a long way when needed. Everything in Russia (and China) is in reality about military preparation.