A company has raised hundreds of millions of dollars to bring back extinct species - and plan to start with the dodo and woolly mammoth. US genetics firm Colossal Biosciences are studying how to alter the DNA of existing animals to try and get them to give birth to animals that had once all died out.
By using the DNA of today's Asian elephant , boffins hope they can edge closer to cracking the genetic code of the mammoth and bring it back from the dead. While"in the minds of many, this creature is gone forever", the company said the wooly mammoth lives on in the dreams of the team at Colossal, which hope a breakthrough could be just years away.
Colossal executive advisory board member Kenneth J. Lacovara added that even though the wooly mammoth seems like an ancient beast, they also lived in a time in history that saw written stories, the Great Pyramids, and brewed beer."That’s not some ancient Jurassic landscape—that’s this world, and they belong in it. When we lost them, and other recently extinct creatures, we forfeited the ecosystem services they provided," Dr Lacovara said.
The palaeontologist added:"We have a chance now to begin to reverse the tide of destruction and to set ourselves on a pathway towards a renewed, regenerative world."
Wonder would they be able to bring Liverpool back? postmanpratt79 JohnHarpur1 😂
Have they not seen jurassic park?
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