I’m still waiting for a miniature cloned mammoth. A “mammouse.” Be a great pet!
Global Warming causes the return of ice age mammals.
Easier to map the DNA of the extinct species and modify the DNA of an existing close relative to match it.
God let them go ... we should too
Extinct, or (like some speculate about Neanderthals) absorbed into the current population?
The mammoths have several good reasons to be brought back:
* people compete with elephants for living space in tropical climates, but no one cares if mammoths run around in Canada or Siberia
* bringing them back may restore the tundra grasslands to health
* we can engineer them to be tourist attractions to areas otherwise neglected
I dig up a mammoth and baby in a peat field in IN back in the 70’s.
There was still pliable tissue on some of the bones.
She had gotten “bogged” down and rolled over on her back, so the leg bones and pelvis were the first things we found. Bethel College got all of it but a femur, rib and vertebrae that I kept.
I’ve been calling for bringing back sabre tooth tigers. These lions are close enough. Next, idiots will be signing up on the wait list for cute little cuddly t-rex puppies.
No no no!
Go for the Saber toothed cat!!!!
I want to see that critter eat!!
Extinct during the Younger Dryas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas) when many large animals died off after several 2 kilometer comet fragments crashed into the Ice Cap - the heat bursts causing instantaneous large scale melting and resulting floods worldwide raising ocean level many hundreds of feet, generating a black rain and nights that lasted years, and bitter cold ... until 1000 years later when once again the Earth crossed the comet’s path and more fragments hit the remaining Ice Cap reversing the cold and turning the climate warm once again.
I wonder what restroom it will want to use.
"You can tell that they're working things out..."
An army of cave lions feasting on the San Francisco population...
That would be SO cool!