Dallas Tx. de - extinction of Wooly Mammoth

[Lone Hunter]

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/woolly-mammoth-de-extinction-project-underway-in-dallas/3387516/

[trilobites_are_awesome]

I knew about this for sometime i do not know how i feel about it though.

[Tidgy's Dad]

Scientificaly, I think it is exciting and eagerly anticipate future advances.

Ethically, well, I'm pretty sure it's a bad idea.

Bringing back some of the species that humans have exterminated and still have their natural habitats intact would be easier for me to be happy with.

[trilobites_are_awesome]

39 minutes ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

Scientificaly, I think it is exciting and eagerly anticipate future advances.

Ethically, well, I'm pretty sure it's a bad idea.

Bringing back some of the species that humans have exterminated and still have their natural habitats intact would be easier for me to be happy with.

I agree. but i don't think that creatures that have been extinct for 4.000 years should be brought back. The planet is different how would they co exist with humans?  My brain screams bad idea but that's my two cents.

[Tidgy's Dad]

1 minute ago, trilobites_are_awesome said:

I agree. but i don't think that creatures that have been extinct for 4.000 years should be brought back. The planet is different how would they co exist with humans?  My brain screams bad idea but that's my two cents.

I expect they'd be kept in zoos and nature reserves, not left to roam about and interact with humans.

But is their best diet still available? Where would they be put in a warming world? What parasites and diseases may they not have immunity? How long before some commercial enterprise starts selling mammoth meat?

[trilobites_are_awesome]

Just now, Tidgy's Dad said:

I expect they'd be kept in zoos and nature reserves, not left to roam about and interact with humans.

But is their best diet still available? Where would they be put in a warming world? What parasites and diseases may they not have immunity? How long before some commercial enterprise starts selling mammoth meat?

I don't know but it's a bad idea.

 

[Thomas.Dodson]

Is a gene edited Asian elephant actually a woolly mammoth? It's ridiculous the amount of research money this company has acquired.

[trilobites_are_awesome]

I think it won't work.

[CDiggs]

I think even if they do manage it (and I think it's unlikely that they do) there will be a lot of extraordinarily expensive failures along the way, and with elephant pregnancies lasting around 20 months failures would be expensive time-wise as well.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kionasmith/2021/01/23/the-species-that-went-extinct-twice/?sh=66b6f2373312

The Iberian Ibex is an interesting example of an attempt at de-extinction and it seems like this Forbes article did a decent job bringing up many of the concerns raised here.

[Denis Arcand]

They say they are editing the elephant genome to recreate a woolly mammoth,

If they succeed, I'm not sure they'll be able to bring back older species.

For example, what animal genes do we need to edit to bring back Trex...      a sparrow?

[Denis Arcand]

7 hours ago, trilobites_are_awesome said:

How long before some commercial enterprise starts selling mammoth meat?

 

Already done

 

https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/28/world/mammoth-meatballs-cultured-meat-climate-scn/index.html