Reviving a woolly mammoth

[Loppan Torkel]

A large part of the DNA from a frozen wolly mammoth have been extracted from hair follicles and the American and Russian scientists think it's just a matter of time before we'll see a live mammoth, even though some technical difficulties still are ahead.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7738062.stm

What do you think? Will we see Ötzi revived too in time?

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

Why revive Ötzi? He died of natural causes, and it's not like there aren't other humans left in the world; and clone-Ötzi can tell us nothing about OG Ötzi, since memories can't be cloned.

 

[Truronian]

Has Hollywood taught us nothing?

Spoiler :

 

[Mirc]

I doubt we can get enough DNA material to do it.

@Truronian: A bunch of muscular primitive humans could extinct the mammoths and we can't do it with our weapons today? Unlike what Hollywood seems to want us to believe, the bigger the animal, the easier it is to fight it, for us humans. Of course, that's within a certain limit. But it would be harder to fight invasions of certain devastating grasshoppers than mammoths. Spotting them is easy, hunting them is easy, restricting their food is easy since they need a lot of it, etc.

 

[El_Machinae]

I think that it's obvious we should try to clone a woolly mammoth. Whatever normalises high technology

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

It would be several degrees of awesome. If I could have any one extinct animal brough back, it would be the mammoth.

 

[Masquerouge]

Where would we put the poor beast? In a zoo?

 

[Rossiya]

Yeah, I saw this story on BBC News. Not sure what to make of it as I have very limited scientific knowledge. All I can say is that I hope they are crossing over the one.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

Where would we put the poor beast? In a zoo?

Maybe there is some open space out in Siberia, once they have enough.

 

[woody60707]

This could have,..... unintended consequences. One thing off the the top of my head is the polar bear. What if the moral issue of humans driving other animals extinct was rendered a moot point?

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

There are still econonomic issues, no?

 

[Bigfoot3814]

I would love to see a baby woolly mammoth.

 

[Phlegmak]

I'm all for it. Stick 'em in Canada and Russia.

 

[bhsup]

I would rather see the big predators brought back. The American lion, etc.

 

[bigdog5994]

i want mammoth stew

 

[Bigfoot3814]

It would be very blubbery.

 

[El_Machinae]

There are still econonomic issues, no?

Easily overcome by hiring them to do our dishes.

 

[Narz]

Lets re-build Genghis Khan & a dodo bird instead.

 

[MobBoss]

Trying to clone a wooly mammoth in this era of Global Warming is just terrible timing.

Perhaps they can be a food source for all the starving Polar Bears we keep hearing about.

 

[Bigfoot3814]

Perhaps they can be a food source for all the starving Polar Bears we keep hearing about.

They're drowning, not starving.