Mammoths have been extinct for thousands of years, but scientists in the United States say the vision could become reality sooner than many dared to hope.
The remains of Viki, a million-year-old fossilised mammoth skeleton, at the Viminacium museum near Kostolac, Serbia. Viki was found in a coal pit supplying a thermal plant, near the remains of a Roman archaeological site, alongside the scattered remnants of six other animals. — dpa
Instead, they are planning to combine the cells of the Asian elephant, an endangered species, with the prehistoric genes of the mammoth that scientists have identified, according to Church. Scientists have repeatedly recovered mammoth remains as the permafrost melts. But while the blood, tissue and genetic material found in the animals’ tusks have answered questions about evolution, it is not enough to clone them.
“Mammoths are not needed to directly combat climate change,” said Simov. The benefit of herbivorous large mammals would be to make Arctic landscapes more diverse and resilient as pastures, that could influence climate change. “We are talking about many millions of sq km of permafrost region that would have to be populated by an enormously high density of animals,” he says. There is not time to create that many animals, he adds. “Global warming would already be too far advanced in the Arctic by then.”Gareth Phoenix, of Britain’s University of Sheffield, says it would be detrimental if only grass and no trees grow in areas populated by mammoths.
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