Mammoths vs. Mastodons: Can we 'de-extinct' them both?
There's been a lot of talk and research interest around the possibility of resurrecting certain groups of organisms (or, at least their genomes) from extinction, with Woolly Mammoths being...
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There's a lot of buzz in the news about de-extinction.With the growing interest in technologies and research,that could possibly bring animals and plants back from being, well, extinct.One of the candidates high on that list is the woolly mammoth.They're the closest relatives to our living Asian elephants today,and only widely disappeared about 10,000 years ago.With some isolated populations hanging on until about 4,700 years ago.That may seem like a long time,but at that period in the not-so-distant past,glass was being invented and the great pyramids of Giza were being built.So, really, it's a blip in the scheme of things.Since woolly mammoth's genetic information has been so well preserved in the permafrost,where recent specimens have b...
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There's a lot of buzz in the news about de-extinction.With the growing interest in technologies and research,that could possibly bring animals and plants back from being, well, extinct.One of the candidates high on that list is the woolly mammoth.They're the closest relatives to our living Asian elephants today,and only widely disappeared about 10,000 years ago.With some isolated populations hanging on until about 4,700 years ago.That may seem like a long time,but at that period in the not-so-distant past,glass was being invented and the great pyramids of Giza were being built.So, really, it's a blip in the scheme of things.Since woolly mammoth's genetic information has been so well preserved in the permafrost,where recent specimens have b...
