Scientists inch forward in efforts to resurrect an extinct giant

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• BakerBagel@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I understand that the science behind this is exciting and has potential, but the mammoths ran out of suitable habitat 5,000 years before climate change absolutely devastated subarctic habitats. What can actually be done with resurrected mammoths that wont lead to them living a miserable existence.

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  • Bob_Robertson_IX@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I doubt there’s a plan to reintroduce them to the wild. If they ever succeed then they will likely only create them for scientific study and to prove out the theories to show it can be done. At best these will be animals kept in a couple of zoos until their species dies out again, or they create a breeding program robust enough to stock other zoos.

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    • Brain@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It sounds like they do want to reintroduce them…

      Colossal has long claimed that mammoths, should they return to the grasslands in the planet’s northernmost reaches in sufficient numbers, would help slow down permafrost thaw.

      They also would be elephant hybrids so not quite mammoths of old.

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  • MutilationWave@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Shave them big boys and girls. Fucking five foot wide Gillette.

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  • BakerBagel@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The worl on dodos and tasmanian tigers seems much more ethical to me than mammoths.

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• Mr_Blott@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’d be a lot more interested if they could put the same amount of effort into making tiny cat-sized cows and rabbit-sized pigs

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