In a historic building in Deep Ellum, a colossal effort is underway to bring some of the most famously extinct animals back to life.
  • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
    15·
    1 year ago

    “As it turns out the woolly mammoth and Asian elephant are 99.6% gnomically similar,” said James.

    That is still further apart genetically than humans and the other two chimp species, so it is still a massive gap to bridge.

    Asian elephants are also endangered, wouldn’t it be better to ensure their survival than to spend money on this boondoggle?

      • mreiner@beehaw.orgEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        Is anyone proposing both?

        This feels like a publicity stunt at best. Why de-extinct something at all, especially something with no current ecological niche?

        • ursakhiin@beehaw.orgEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Not too mention, de-extincting something that is from a much colder point of history while we are heating up the planet.