Colossal Secures $200M, Advancing De-Extinction Science That Soon Could Resurrect the Woolly Mammoth

The Debrief ^ | January 15, 2025 | Micah Hanks

[Red Badger]

Very crafty......Inscrutable, even......... 😏

[pierrem15]

Accident plays a big role: in all likelihood, the combination of the quick drop in temperature from the Younger Dryas destroying habitat and human pressure reduced them to an isolated population in Novaya Zemlya where genetic isolation finished them off about 3,000 years ago.

Just like the dinosaurs, an abrupt combination of accidents finished them off. We anthropomorphize nature when we ascribe purposes: "all there is is matter in motion." Unless you are a believer, in which case God may have a purpose, but that is probably unknown to us.

[DouglasKC]

I just finished a very good novel about this: Extinction by Douglas Preston.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I refer you to Post #1

[Omnivore-Dan]

How about bringing back something we recently made extinct, like the Carolina Parakeet? Or the Tasmanian Devil? And preserving those that are on the brink of extinction? Bringing back the mammoth might have consequences that are not beneficial to the environment as it is today.

[dfwgator]

So why bother trying to save the Delta Smelt, when you could just bring it back?

[Red Badger]

They find these mammoth carcasses frozen in the permafrost of Siberia and elsewhere, but they forget that these carcasses have parasites and bacteria frozen with them that we may not have been exposed to for tens of thousands of years............

[Nateman]

As a kid I’d hear ‘extinction’ is forever. I didn’t believe it then and figure they will eventually succeed. What they actually bring back are probably going to be approximations of what was the real thing.

[Red Badger]

Tasmanian Devil is not extinct.

The Tasmanian Tiger (thylacine) is.............

[Lazamataz]

Totally fine with bringing back the Mammoths, so long as they bring back Sabre Tooth Tigers at the same time...

Also, all the critters that powered the Fred Flintstone world. Big dinosaur birds for airplanes, a brontosaurus as a quarry crane, and so on.

[Lazamataz]

Using AI to do large scale gene editing seems like such a good idea. /s

This is what the fuzzy little bunny, the Cutius Maximus (extinct) looks like with AI help:

[Omnivore-Dan]

I stand corrected. It is no longer found on mainland Australia, but still exists on Tasmania.

[dfwgator]

"Run Away!"

[Fai Mao]

No, they weren’t

The ice age ended and the environment changed around them

[Rockingham]

The Wooly Mammoth was a keystone species that maintained large stretches of arctic plain as brush and grasslands. This is believed to have had beneficial environmental and ecological effects.

[SPDSHDW]

For a bunch of morons that love and espouse the Theory of evolution and survival of the fittest, they sure do keep trying to do the complete opposite.

Mammoths are gone for a reason.

[null and void]

I just want the dodo bird back

They were good eatin' while they lasted...

[grey_whiskers]

Good point.

[null and void]

Growing a human inside the womb of a monkey would not produce anything that resembles either a “human” or a “monkey”.

We won't know until we try...

[null and void]

Let’s not be L-Seven!

We're all squared away...