Pleistocene Park?
The BBC noticed that the Mammoth genome sequence has been completed.
Yes, there really are people who want to modify an elephant egg to produce a mammoth. They are less clear why they want to do this, but they are apparently moving ahead with the project.
I hate to be a naysayer, but is the era of global warming really the ideal environment for reintroducing a species that flourished during the Ice Age? The last known mammoths went extinct on Wrangle Island in the Russian Arctic 4000 years ago when things were still much colder than today.
The money being spent on the recreation of mammoths would be better spent on reducing global climate change so we don’t have more existing species going the way of the mammoth – extinction.
