Breakthrough as mammoth chromosomes found preserved in ice

[UM-Bot]

The discovery brings the idea of 'de-extincting' the woolly mammoth one step closer to reality.

https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/378646/breakthrough-as-mammoth-chromosomes-found-preserved-in-ice

[+OverSword]

I remember reading a theory a few years ago that if mammoths could be reintroduced to Siberia it could slow or reverse the melting of the permafrost there.  If that happened that would seal up a big source of CO2.

[MysteryMike]

All we'd be doing is bringing back elephants resembling mammoths. The mammoths we all knew are long gone.

[Stiff]

2 hours ago, MysteryMike said:

All we'd be doing is bringing back elephants resembling mammoths. The mammoths we all knew are long gone.

Considering that they share around 99% DNA I'd say that bringing back elephants that resemble mammoths is basically... bringing back mammoths.

[Ell]

Maybe we can crossbreed them with sheep and dairy cows for mammoth wool and mammoth milk?

[Grim Reaper 6]

4 minutes ago, Ell said:

Maybe we can crossbreed them with sheep and dairy cows for mammoth wool and mammoth milk?

Thats an interesting idea EII, but if we did Cows and Sheep would no longer have job!

[Cho Jinn]

Presuming we'd eat these mammoths, how would be best prepare them?  Sources say that their closest relatives are lean and somewhat fibrous, so we'd probably want to marinate them with an acid - say, orange juice or apple cider vinegar - for some time, and then perhaps smoke them using cherry wood pellets.

[Ell]

We need mammoth cherry trees, obviously.

 

The unemployed sheep and dairy cows could be retrained as mammoth hair dressers and mammoth nail stylists.

[Stiff]

On 7/12/2024 at 1:39 AM, Ell said:

Maybe we can crossbreed them with sheep and dairy cows for mammoth wool and mammoth milk?

That would be quite a mammoth task.