Woolly Mammoth to be Cloned

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Scientifically speaking this is very exciting. I'm not sure what the implications would be with regards to releasing some into the wild though lol.

They might end up ruining a delicate eco system or something, or killing all the wild male elephants and raping the female elephants so all we're left with are kinda furry elephant halfbreeds.
 
Would love to see the tree-huggers and religions eejits argue this one out, lol.
What a bun fight that would be.
TH: "It's inhuame...what right do we have...!?"
RE: "Oh...it's all part of Gods plan"

OCUK Massive: ":rolleyes:"
 
Im happy for this to go a head, happy to see science advanced so much.
Hopefully gives human kind the ability to at some point fix what they have destroyed.

That and i want a pig-mi stegosaurus.
 
SteveOBHave said:
Oh I'm not so sure about that. Is there not some merit to working to undo some of the damage that we've done. Bring back the Dodo, Mammoth, Moa...
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I suppose that's a point, then again we're probably best off working with what we have, who knows, maybe the dodo would over hunt honey bees and then we wouldn't have honey for our toast.
 
vincent1989 said:
And stick us in a cage for it's species to gawp at? The past should stay the past, they died out because they could not live in the world that they existed in.
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Meh,

Evolution holds no prejudice against mammoths, they died out - we evolved to bring them back, it has a nice synergy to it.

The pretty blunt fact is evolution also does not care if 99% of the species on the planet all die out either - the natural order will continue exactly as it is.

For all you know our entire purpose as a species could be to bring these great lumbering overlords back into existence.

It's not immoral or moral - the act alone of bringing animals back causes no intrinsic harm, what will happen to them is a separate question - but I'd wager a number of things.

1. Some in zoo's.
2. Some in nature.

Ironically it's a great way of assisting evolution - as one flaw is that species which get wiped out - may actually have considerable advantages further down the line (but got wiped out already).

Cloning lost species & giving them another chance could yield some interesting results millions of years down the line - I'd wager our gene-pool (as a planet) would be richer for it.
 
They would have to be genetically modified surely because back then the air had a different quality to it so if the DNA/genes extracted says that the mammoth should be XYZ in accordance with their original spec then surely that would be a bad thing for the little beast when it is born?
 
mrk said:
They would have to be genetically modified surely because back then the air had a different quality to it so if the DNA/genes extracted says that the mammoth should be XYZ in accordance with their original spec then surely that would be a bad thing for the little beast when it is born?
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I'd be more concerned with their ability to differentiate between edibles and inedibles but then I also suspect that much like most of these animals they're just big plant eating machines.
 
mrk said:
They would have to be genetically modified surely because back then the air had a different quality to it so if the DNA/genes extracted says that the mammoth should be XYZ in accordance with their original spec then surely that would be a bad thing for the little beast when it is born?
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Life will find a way? ;)
 
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