[Red Badger]

Every kid on Earth will want one!...................

[null and void]

They’re half way there!

Now all they need is a military contract for woolly mice...

[dfwgator]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv5cXss5cPg

[No name given]

I’m starting to see shades of “Jurassic Park”.

[reasonisfaith]

The scientists at Colossal Biosciences demonstrate the lowest form of human intelligence.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

I thought they’d have tiny tusks.

[escapefromboston]

I just want the dodo bird to come back!

[Bob434]

Not sure I’d want mastodon or wooly mammoths back in the us- nor several species that once roamed here, American lions, camels, some type of Sabre toothed tigers (they had another name, maybe smiladons?) Jaguars (we still have a few I guess), and wolves the size of Grey hound buses practically. Some truly wild apex predators. I guess the lions we had were even larger than lions in Africa today. They had to be bigger to cope with extreme cold-

[rktman]

What an awesome idear!

[Leaning Right]

I get that pure research sometimes leads to unexpected breakthroughs.

But it seems to me that the time and money spent on this project would be better spent working on something more practical.

For example, when I grab for a screwdriver from my tool drawer why do I always get the wrong kind on the first try?

[DannyTN]

Those have already escaped the lab.

I saw a dark brown woolly mouse in my house.

[tumblindice]

Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear
Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair
Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t fuzzy
Was he

[AnotherUnixGeek]

I thought the wooly mammoth would be revived by transplanting an intact cell nucleus from a frozen wooly mammoth into the ovum of an Indian elephant (their closest living relative). The egg would then be implanted in an Indian elephant. The result would be a genetic clone of a wooly mammoth that died thousands of years ago.

But what's being described is, as the article says, an effort to create "mammoth-like" creatures that would have a number of genetic traits from the actual wooly mammoths, but would not be the same creatures genetically. Still very cool but kind of a letdown.

[ZOOKER]

Why does the world need hairy elephants? Why would you waste talent and treasure to invent something nobody wants or needs?

If they really must play with genetics, why don't they make chickens that lay three eggs a day or cows that grow twice as much sirloin steak meat?

Unless fake mammoth meat is really tasty...

[dfwgator]

[exnavy]

What would be the purpose? To busy trying to find out how, not willing to consider if they really should.

[dfwgator]

I want a mini-giraffe.

[protest1]

This is more like selective breeding. It is not actually bring a mammoth back to life at all.

"bringing a woolly mammoth-LIKE creature back from extinction"

This would be a new breed so nothing is "back from extinction"

[Larry Lucido]

A mammouse?

[married21]

Gotta start small…