Colossal Biosciences, a Dallas-based biotechnology company, says it has developed the technology necessary to bring the woolly mammoth back from extinction. NBC News’ Morgan Chesky reports on the opportunities this new technology could bring as well as the concerns some scientists are raising.
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#WoollyMammoth #Science #Technology
From the same scientist who claimed we’d all be frozen then switched it to global warming , quacks who waste our hard earned tax dollars .
Introducing new species to new habitats always leads to an invasive species…why would you put one of the largest mammals in history, and just shove them out into the world just because you wanted to. So many irresponsible humans these days.
So, instead of trying to address cancer or any other diseases that are killing us you want to bring back an extinct animal… 😒
Real headline: we’re pointlessly making a genetically modified modern elephant for PR purposes, not a woolly mammoth. There’s no way they’ve decoded the entire mammoth DNA strand and understand and can activate every single encoding sequence in it. Not to mention the non-coding portions which likely mediate expression correctly. Prediction: we never hear another thing about them: vapor elephant incoming.
Why are they even doing this? Humanity doesn’t want or need this.
Any single person who comments just know there doing it sooo make the world colder not warmer you guys sounds so stupid and ignorant also it’s not like there bringing back a dinosaur it’s a wholly mammoth closesest relative tooo Asian elephants ….. there just using dna from a Wolly and impregnating a Asian elephant and boom wolly mammoth.!!!!
Heck yeah. They was good eaten. Mammoth steaks for everyone!
How about helping all the species on the verge of extinction or that very recently went extinct first??
What are you doing to help them?
From what I could gather from this short report, it sounds like a mutated asian elephant, not a pure mammoth. No technology exists to actually grow a true mammoth from DNA extracted from rotting mammoth carcasses. Some modern live sample would have to be coupled with ancient DNA
I remember years ago Japan was doinh similiar thing, going to bring back a dinasour and then they had a major major earthquake and tsunami, that stopped that. There are some things you are not supposed to do.
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein’s monster is a great story about man playing god and spoilers. It doesn’t go as well as they planned.
Advancements in tech and gene modification. Progression
Mammoths have been removed from the ecosystem for tens of thousands of years. They don’t know what to hunt or how to hunt and it’s very possible they don’t have anything to hunt. They have no parents or ancestors to teach them their ways of life. And in a warming world, they have no place to be.
This is absolutely the most irresponsible example of “we’re just doing it because it’d be cool” out there.
They are grazers…they do not hunt…the tundra is grass
Mammoths hunt? 😆
@@horacio-ho3bf They’ve been dead since prehistory. You don’t know whether or not they hunted anything or even what they ate. Plants are subject to evolution as well, and it’s possible what they used to eat isn’t even real anymore.
Yeah. Lets bring a Siberian Husky to the Sahara desert.
A poachers dream. 😂😂😂
Uh huh, they’ve been saying this for years. :/
The ice age is over…
Get Ian Macolm on the phone.
Ok but can I get a pet trex please
Will not be seeing science based clips much anymore with the new hire nbc got.
NBC. They reported that it’s already being gestated a few years ago. Gestation is 22months. Why don’t u report on the results of that one.
See, my biggest concern is that wooly mammoths lived during the Ice Age. With all the global warming, I fear it’s simply too hot to bring them back safely. I’m not even sure our coldest climates on earth are cold enough for them.
Can we please bring back dinosaurs that are programmed to eat politicians?
But they will just be in zoos and captivity. Makes more sense to use this to focus on endangered animals
Why? Just why?
They gonna regret playing God!
The plant life has changed so much. All the plants used to be enormous.
That’s what is needed to sustain the lives of all the massive creatures from the past. That’s why they’re not around anymore.
If they do this, the poor creatures will have to live out their lives in captivity.
They are not thinking of the well being of the animals.
Hmmmm……Scientist bringing back an extinct species. What could go wrong? 🤦🏿♂️
Ill believe it when i see it
All I heard is “we found a way to grow ivory.”
Imagine someone with $ paying to bring a deceased relative using this tech 😮
Why bring dinosaurs back? Omg, really??? How about solving real life problems of war, poverty, human predatory behavior. Stupid!
Do it!!
The Woolly Mammoth is my favorite animal, and I can’t wait to see the the day where I see the Woolly Mammoth in person, in the flesh.
Their version?
We don’t need a mammoth. Bring back the Doddo!! Yummy
Instead of this project , some people will try to solve the mysteries of the Mayan Civilization . The knowledge of the Maya are very important to us . The long count calendar holds a lot of secrets which we must uncover .
If they want to recreate ice age biomes why not focus on the ice age fauna that still exist such as wood bison, musk ox, etc? Not as cool I guess…
I’m actually a firm believer that long term, genetic manipulation will be necessary to create humans capable of long term space habitation. However I don’t think we’re far enough along to be testing on animals let alone humans. More research less fame seeking.
EDIT: Also I’m a firm believer in genetic memory. And those animals would possess the GM of an Asian elephant, not a woolly mammoth. Asian elephants didn’t evolve from mammoths they just share a common ancestor at some point
BE CARFULL IF IT HAS VIRUSES
a dangerous road, what if all mammoth creatures reintegrate and then what made us extinct ? …these are prehistoric dynasty creatures they preluded the dinosaur era which made man extinct ( Jurassic era )
For some reason this doesn’t sit well with me
“It’s simply a function of time” Yes. Not science or human effort. Time and time alone! Mwhahahahahhaha!!!!
Now bring the dodo back, too.
Mammoth meat at Arby’s no doubt if this occurs
Are they just gonna lock them in a zoo after they bring them back ?
This is so stupid and wrong on a whole different level, they are just doing it for the ego to say I did or participated in this which is totally wrong, I get doing it for species that went extinct due to human activity but bringing back a species that went extinct millions of years ago due to nature is at the epitome of wrong.
The woolly mammoth went extinct because the environment can no longer sustain them. What makes scientists think a giant hairy elephant is going to survive in our warming earth? Wasting DNA for something that’s not even gonna survive.
News networks have pushed this topic for the last 15+ years, and it never happens. So sick of seeing it
Ok I used tot hink this was awesome and good idea of re putting these species on this planet but truth be told…..it’s not their hone anymore Animals die day and species go extinct every year weather alegw or small it’s nature. Natural selection is a necessity for when we try to play God it never goes well have we nit learned that these things will never be used for the better of society…..i.e splitting the atom made nuclear weapons….creating steam engines gave us steam powered warships that lead to coal fed and then oil and gas based cars tanks and fighter planes all used for harm……..finding a way to make millions of years old DNA into a living species seems like it will not end well I would love to see these floofy elaphants roam this planet but they couldn’t survive the HUMAN based climate we have procreate for thousands of years
If you listen to the video it’s not really a woolly mammoth they are bringing back. It’s just a new type of Asian elephant. Humans have made new types of animals such as dogs, cows and chickens not seen in nature. This is similar but a shortcut and not through domestication.
I don’t see the point. Cure cancer first.
It’s a woolly Asian elephant 🤦🏽 human’s at there finest
This is gonna change the world. Crichton was right
None of you even understand what any of this is about and honestly it’s sad. The woolly mammoth could literally save the planet. We need the mammoth to trample the snow and ice down in the arctic so the ground can freeze further down and prevent permafrost melt. Permafrost is full of dead plants and other organic material that’s thousands of years old and when melted it will release more co2 into the atmosphere then humans could even imagine.
Dinosaurs in Jurassic park wernt full Dino’s either. And let’s be real JP isn’t a bible it’s entertainment
What is honest purpose of this dumb research or proposition? Absolute waste of time, resources. Use this towards something useful, there’s no reason or need to bring back extinct species, let nature take care of that !
Bring back the T-Rex
Let’s get a theme park of extinct animals too
Jurassic Park DLC about to drop.🦖🦕
US strategy for victory in Russia and China may depend on this one guys– so, dont mess it up!
Yes, we need wooly mammoths and not a cure for cancer or something useful. I seriously can’t wait for the apocalypse.
We can’t even save the elephants currently in existence
Why would they do that? What would we feed it there are already a lot of animals hungry already
They should try to bring back some predators too like smilodon or shortface bear. Let them roam the national parks.
Immoral and irrational. This is the zenith of capitalism, uselessness and wasted resources. It’s like funding a war and supplying humanitarian aid at the same time…oh wait…
It’s n0t th3 real m@m0oth . Its just a b1gg3r version 0f a mod1fied eleph@nt.
It seems like a more productive use of this technology would be to help save current endangered species on the planet, not to bring back extinct ones just for the heck of it
Initially, I am siding with Dr. Lynch. I think having the knowledge & tools to be able to do these things is awesome. I just cannot see a reason for woolly mammoths specifically as it has been so long. Other species which have gone extinct recently, sure, as long as climate change is accounted for.
Interesting
So dumb.
Why not bring back the Irish elk from extinction instead? Deer hunters would go gaga crazy over that species! Imagine bringing home a rack that’s 12 feet wide and needs two people to lift it?!
Seriously, why bring a species back from extinction that nature wiped out 13,000 years ago due to the Younger Dryas???? Well they did kind of survive a little bit after that event, but not for very long due to the dramatic climate changes at the end of the last Ice Age.
If humanity can now create an extinct species you would think it would stop extinguishing species in present times – we are a species of hypocrites 🤷♂️🤪👍
Aren’t we closer to bringing the Thylacine back moreso than the Mammoth.
Ummm.. Have they not watched Jurassic Park? Bringing back prehistoric animals.. Bad idea.
We can’t even keep elephants alive💀💀💀💀
Entire movie franchises dedicated to showing us how this has and always will be a terrible idea that is only gonna be met with problems
Modifying COVID viruses worked out well. Let’s try this.
So it’s not really a mammoth 🦣
We can’t even cure cancer and we’re doing this crap
Stop takling crap. Professional bullshitters!
It’s not even a real mammoth, that’s just a marketing ploy. It’s an Asian elephant modified to have hair. So dumb, so incredibly dumb and worthless.
It’s like they never watched Jurassic park. Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.
“God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man. Man destroys God.”
Hhuuggee money just like Jurassic park instead of doing the world favors let’s make more money their thinking
The worst idea ever! 😂
People are STILL hungry 😢
The mammoth will be killed by a poacher for its tusks
Start with the mammoth, doto bird and warm up to bigger things with more teeth.. this is jurassic park plot. Just because you think you can doesn’t mean you should.. would it be cool to see, absolutely. Is it unethical and dangerous territory, for sure..
I suppose it can adapt to modern environment instead of relying on ancient plants for diet.
Not good!!
They’ll just die off again In the heat
Doubt his time frame of 5 years is accurate. More like 50 years . But yeah he is right eventually it will happen.
What in the Jurassic Park is going on here?
Your content is astronomical. Let’s collab and explore the universe!
yea Im good with them staying extinct yall
What animal would African elephants have evolved from.
Is the right thing to do?
Work on animals in danger of extinction now like rhinos. Polar bears that are in trouble _ now
Wrong wrong wrong…..
This is a bad idea.
Individuals on this planet have lost their minds! God help us!
I WANT A DINOSAUR 🦖🦕