UM-Bot Posted February 16, 2017 #1 Share Posted February 16, 2017 Scientists believe that an elephant-mammoth hybrid embryo could be created within as little as two years. http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/304010/woolly-mammoth-on-the-verge-of-resurrection 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aardvark-DK Posted February 16, 2017 #2 Share Posted February 16, 2017 Oh great. To cope with cold weather climate..in this Climate change, and ice-melting period ? It's dead Jim...leave it alone 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xYlvax Posted February 16, 2017 #3 Share Posted February 16, 2017 Didn't they say that years ago? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundew Posted February 16, 2017 #4 Share Posted February 16, 2017 Futurists often predict things, sometimes they come true, time will tell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myles Posted February 17, 2017 #5 Share Posted February 17, 2017 9 hours ago, seanjo said: I'm not comfortable with all this messing with nature...BUT!...I'd love to see one. I feel the same. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldrover Posted February 17, 2017 #6 Share Posted February 17, 2017 I don't get it, it's a hairy elephant? You could stick hair on an elephant today and see the same effect tomorrow. There's no point, the mammoth lived and died, let it be. Where's the moral justification for resurrecting one? Is it's ecosystem even still there? I live on the far western tip of what was once the Mammoth Steppe and it's changed, considerably. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myles Posted February 17, 2017 #7 Share Posted February 17, 2017 1 hour ago, oldrover said: I don't get it, it's a hairy elephant? You could stick hair on an elephant today and see the same effect tomorrow. There's no point, the mammoth lived and died, let it be. Where's the moral justification for resurrecting one? Is it's ecosystem even still there? I live on the far western tip of what was once the Mammoth Steppe and it's changed, considerably. I think it's a little different than sticking some hair on an elephant. I agree that an ecosystem may not exist for them anymore. I don't know if current tundra vegetation exists that would sustain them. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paperdyer Posted February 17, 2017 #8 Share Posted February 17, 2017 On 2/16/2017 at 2:26 PM, Sundew said: Futurists often predict things, sometimes they come true, time will tell. Or they just keep repeating the prediction every so often so when it does happen they can say "See, I predictedthat! I'm so good!" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White Unicorn Posted February 18, 2017 #9 Share Posted February 18, 2017 I heard about this years ago and it was about gene editing a hybrid but the process would take years of editing out the elephant genes from the hybrids born. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldrover Posted February 18, 2017 #10 Share Posted February 18, 2017 51 minutes ago, White Unicorn said: I heard about this years ago and it was about gene editing a hybrid but the process would take years of editing out the elephant genes from the hybrids born. I think, that was the old idea, before they'd recovered the whole genomes of quite a few extinct species. As an aside, they now have the complete thylacine genome. It's not been formally published on yet though. I'm not claiming any special insight there, I do have a couple of good connections but I learned that from 'Expedition Unkown'. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woopypooky Posted February 19, 2017 #11 Share Posted February 19, 2017 For those people who tried to resurrect dinosaurs and ice age creatures, what's the benefit in doing so? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taniwha Posted February 19, 2017 #12 Share Posted February 19, 2017 (edited) 1 hour ago, woopypooky said: For those people who tried to resurrect dinosaurs and ice age creatures, what's the benefit in doing so? Jun 11, 1993Jurassic Park $63,000,000 $50,159,460 $395,708,305 $1,038,812,584 May 22, 1997The Lost World: Jurassic Park $75,000,000 $72,132,785 $229,086,679 $618,638,999 Jul 18, 2001Jurassic Park III $93,000,000 $50,771,645 $181,166,115 $365,900,000 Jun 12, 2015Jurassic World $215,000,000 $208,806,270 $652,198,010 $1,671,640,59 Jun 22, 2018Jurassic World Sequel $0$0 Totals $446,000,000 $1,458,159,109 $3,694,992,176 Averages $111,500,000 $95,467,540 $364,539,777 $923,748,044 The Benefits of Cloning Dinosaurs Edited February 19, 2017 by taniwha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundew Posted February 20, 2017 #13 Share Posted February 20, 2017 20 hours ago, woopypooky said: For those people who tried to resurrect dinosaurs and ice age creatures, what's the benefit in doing so? Well, first of all, you can never tell how such technology might be helpful in the future, say in medicine or gene therapy. Secondly, in the case of certain more modern creatures, like say Stellar's Sea Cow, Passenger Pigeon, Carolina Parakeet, Thylacine and many others, these were wiped out in fairly recent history by man's thoughtlessness. By removing them from their natural habitat, we changed the environment in which they lived. If we could bring them back, we might rectify the damage we have caused. As for dinosaurs, I'm fairly certain without good genetic material, that will not happen anytime soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattstar Posted February 20, 2017 #14 Share Posted February 20, 2017 Our ancestors hunted them and most other species of mega-fauna to extinction. If there's a chance we can undo mistakes of the past, I think we should bring them back! Bring a few back and set up a reserve for them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myles Posted February 20, 2017 #15 Share Posted February 20, 2017 8 hours ago, Mattstar said: Our ancestors hunted them and most other species of mega-fauna to extinction. If there's a chance we can undo mistakes of the past, I think we should bring them back! Bring a few back and set up a reserve for them. From what I have read, humans played a part, but may not have been the biggest reason for their extinction. Disease, lack of fresh water and climate change may have been bigger factors. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissJatti Posted February 23, 2017 #16 Share Posted February 23, 2017 scientists are so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldrover Posted February 23, 2017 #17 Share Posted February 23, 2017 On 20/02/2017 at 2:07 AM, Sundew said: Well, first of all, you can never tell how such technology might be helpful in the future, say in medicine or gene therapy. Secondly, in the case of certain more modern creatures, like say Stellar's Sea Cow, Passenger Pigeon, Carolina Parakeet, Thylacine and many others, these were wiped out in fairly recent history by man's thoughtlessness. By removing them from their natural habitat, we changed the environment in which they lived. If we could bring them back, we might rectify the damage we have caused. Better to spend the money saving species that are dying out now, before we have to rescue them form beyond extinction. As much as I love thylacines I'd rather see the money spent combating DFTD and saving the quoll. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundew Posted February 24, 2017 #18 Share Posted February 24, 2017 9 hours ago, oldrover said: Better to spend the money saving species that are dying out now, before we have to rescue them form beyond extinction. As much as I love thylacines I'd rather see the money spent combating DFTD and saving the quoll. I'm sure being two different disciplines, there's room for both ideals and funding for each likely comes from different sources, it's not like one group supports every cause. The quoll is probably more endangered from introduced foxes and cats, whether they will ever be mostly controlled remains to be seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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