My problem with private companies doing this, is that, it will probably end up like the cryogenic fad.
Betteridge’s law.
In this case, while it might be possible to reproduce a member of an extinct species, if the conditions which cause the die-off of that species are unchanged then the species will still be extinct. The living individual would be a curiosity at best.
Not only that but would so few specimens be a minimum viable population? This would be a pretty large number of individuals to attempt true rewilding.
Where are these mammoths meant to roam ? And does anybody get why they think trampling grass and snow is going to protect permafrost ?
Great question! Thankfully somebody is already working on that, and it’s pretty neat.
Not to mention rejection/loss of their mothers.
So here are some hybrid elephant/mammoths (because take modern elephant egg and replace parts if it with edited dna, keeping most of the modern cell) ; who probably will experience constant pain and unhealthy feelings due to the editing; having life long psychological issues - with no real place to live except in a nature preserve.
The first viable generation will probably be so messed up they need humans to raise the second generation; and the future generations will probably not feel healthy.
Has anyone ever had to deal with several tons of grumpy issues ? I’m fist it’s not me helping
This is why I totally do not support such efforts, done for things other than the new life’s value
Did those scientists never read jurassic park?
Not that bringing back the dodo bird or mammoths would have quite the same effect probably but species go extinct for a reason.
In a lot of cases, the reason is that they were driven to extinction by humans.
There’s some poetic justice waiting to happen here.
