So, 2 years for the embryo to develop, another seventeen years for it to mature, by that time, vat-grown meat will be cheap, so 20 years to mammoth burgers!
Cool! I first saw the possibility of this suggested in an early 1980s issue of the sadly now defunct Science Digest. Unfortunately, for dinosaurs we'll have to content ourselves with animatronics. Wonder if they'll ever be able to recreate the now extinct rural conservative Democrat? Nah. Probably animatronics........
Who are you? Fred Flintstone? But seriously, I wonder if they have enough DNA from the Sabertooth tiger and if it has close enough living relative to try the same thing with it? Plus the Passenger Pigeon. Dodo bird. various others.
So, you're not the least bit curious what mammoth would have tasted like? We have ample DNA from most of those, save the sabertooth, of which we appear to have none (yet). Unfortunately, in the case of the dodo, the DNA would only come from a handful of specimens, meaning that any recreated birds would have to be watched over closely for genetic damage caused by inbreeding.
So we're bringing about bugs from 60,000 years ago and now we are cloning Woolly mammoths? We are just flirting with making ourselves extinct.
@Christopher Sad but true. We should be cloning existing rhinos to beef up their populations. Then after their populations are stabilized, move on to cloning woolly rhinos.
Cloned mammoths & wooly rhinos would be screwed the minute asians start thinking that their ground up horns/tusks make them more virile.
Maybe scientists should start cloning extant elephants & rhinos first, & save them from extinction, then move on to cloning woolly mammoths & woolly rhinos.
I don't know how I feel about this sort of thing being done with extremely intelligent species like elephants.
If they're woolly, does that make them closer to being a cow? If so, then there would be less guilt in eating a Woolly Mammoth steak.
