Biotech company reveals breakthrough that could lead to revival of extinct woolly mammoth

NYPOST ^ | 3/6/2024 | DAVID PROPPER

[xoxox]

slow news day, perhaps.

[pierrem15]

They went extinct, like many other Pleistocene megafauna, because the Younger Dryas cooling changed the climate faster than the tundra savannah they depended on could move south and because human hunters provided significant additional mortality.

Some pygmy mammoths survived in Novaya Zemlya islands until about 4,000 years ago. The population was too small and severe inbreeding caused an accumulation of genetic defects, resulting in their extinction.

[pierrem15]

Just think what the safari and taxidermy fees would be. :-)

[mewzilla]

5 or 6 times.

I’ve lost count.

[gundog]

[Blood of Tyrants]

Global warming killed the woolly mammoth but allowed humans to thrive on a much larger area.

[EnderWiggin1970]

I recall reading about efforts to bring back the mammoth while I was in high school back in the 80's. That's how long this sort of thing has been floating around.

One problem the journalists don't address is that it's not enough to find a strand of partly decayed DNA and repair it with sections of elephant DNA or their best guesses. You then need proteins (basically cellular machinery) that are precisely matched up to execute the DNA blueprint.

Sticking mammoth DNA into an elephant cell without also modifying the proteins will be like walking into a Corvette factory with the blueprints for a Camaro, trying to get the latter built. Without modification of the equipment along the assembly line such a task will prove impossible, even if the vehicles share many similarities.

[jagusafr]

That you can does not mean you may. That you may does not mean you should.

What justifies this manipulation?

[guest7]

"Let me guess; they will be classified as an “endangered species,” and people will lose their property rights wherever they are released."

I want one.....

...to take to Joe's beach house, and let him crap in his yard.

...so Joe and tell the "reporters", about when he was a kid, and his "Long Neck Neanderthal" neighbors would walk their Wooly Mammoths by his house, to let them crap in his yard; while Joe "sniffed" their "wooly fur".

One of Joe's Long Neck neighbors...

...and one of Barry's...

[guest7]

"awesome! Wooly Mammoth burgers are delicious!"

Can you imagine a "Buc-ee's Wooly Mammoth" Brisket sandwich?

More sauce please...

[Lion Den Dan]

[The woolly booger went extinct for a reason.]]

Yes, because they were delicious!...........

And they were made out of meat. I bet you can’t eat just one!

[Bob434]

lol- ill take 2 please-

[Bob434]

Yep- none of that lab grown vegetable meat like impossible meat burgers they serve today

[Flatus I. Maximus]

> “It will walk like a Woolly Mammoth, look like one, sound like one,

But will it *taste* like one?

[Honorary Serb]

Not a good idea!

[Bob Ireland]

***Northern Tuskers: Scientists One Colossal Step Closer to ‘De-Extinction’ of the Wooly Mammoth – But Why?***

The same nutty 'scientists' that suggested correcting the dangers of global warming by changing Earth's orbit around the Sun. Just isolating these nut cases may not be enough in order to save humanity❗😠

[SunkenCiv]

Mammoth told me there'd be topics like these.

• Scientists Resurrecting The Woolly Mammoth Are Crazy, Not 'Cool' [02/19/2024]

[Does so]

Yeah, and my personal guilt continues...

[Candor7]

Hell, they already have de-extincted the Woolly cave man.Why not the woolly mammoth?

[Red Badger]

Sounds like a mammoth project....,......