Scientists believe that they are well on the way to bring back a Woolly mammoth from extinction.
A firm in the United States has raised $15m towards the experiment.
Scientists are set on creating an elephant-mammoth hybrid, with first calves expected in six years.
Woolly mammoths vanished 10,000 years ago from the face of the Earth.
The team of scientist believe they can create the elephant-mammoth hybrid by making embryos in the laboratory that carry mammoth DNA and skin cells from Asian elephants.
These embryos would then be carried to term in a surrogate elephant or maybe in an artificial womb.
If all goes to plan – and the hurdles are far from trivial – the researchers hope to have their first set of calves in six years.
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We hope this succeeds, although it could be dangerous having a woolly mammoth in your lab! Epic news though, can’t wait until the first calf is born in 6 years
That’s amazing
That is so cool
wow
Thats cool
Wow thats so cool! I wonder where they would live?
wow
Why are they bringing them back though
This is so cool Wow i don’t know how you did it!
um thats werid but cool
wow
don’t bring them back they will destroy everything.
Thats great news! But be careful otherwise they can be dangeras!
If this works you could tame them like pets! And you can relese them too!
Amazing!
is it alive?
why don’t you try to bring more fish into the sea instead.
wow okay so there kind of giving us a blast of the past or a taste of the past
Whoa… cool! Hope they succeed! Can’t wait for a woolly mammoth to come to existence!
What about the Asian elephants 🙁
Why are they doing this? What if they bring danger to earth, but on the other hand it does sound cool though
Why would you bring it back that’s a real bad idea
I saw this on lifefm
interesting
this is totally real
that is dangeroues what hapens if they hurt people but they can hurt my sisters
wow cool
Well, they could kill a lot of animals in the wild. Besides, do we eat woolly mammoths nowadays? No, of course, So why don’t we bring back more pigs, cows and chickens? That will be worth the money.
wow
so cool
That would be cool to have mammoths back
This is so interesting I hope they can bring it back right now! I’m really interested in wooly mammoths
wow that is cool but how would they make one they idk if they would make one out of meet or something but it would be cool to see one.
Wow that was really cool
that is so cool! imagine having one of those in your backyard!!
I hope they do bring them back it will be so cool
i always wanted to eat a prehistoric animal
wow
A Big hairy elephant going mad on the streets of a big city is not a great idea
I HOPE IT COMES TO NZ