Scientists might bring back extinct animal...

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/japansciencemammoth

This sounds twisted! Like something out of Jurassic Park.

Why twisted? However it does not sound very useful.

ruveyn

Yeah. I hope that they will be able to put together a viable herd.

When mammoths walked the earth topic

While interesting in theory and possibly to science, I think this does a great injustice to the species itself. The clone will indeed have elephant DNA, and one does not know what other diseases might be resurrected along with this long extinct herbivore.

Perhaps the japanese might want to look in their own backyards and stop hunting dolphins and other cestaceans, if they want to make a mark in the preserve a species club. This would be a better twist (er, spin) on research.

well I hate to say it but what if the Mammoth is too big for the elephant........also about the disease thing yeah they may not have thought about that. Doesn't seem like they did

they died out for a reason

there are plenty of endangered animals now that have a place in the ecosystem that could be helped

This is Cool!

Maybe if it works they will be able to get DNA from enough different Mammoths that they will be able to create a heard that has a chance of being viable. I don't think the resurrection of old diseases will be an issue because they are using the DNA from a Mammoth cell. Any ancient diseases (bacteria and viruses) the Mammoth might have had would most likely be present outside of the cell's nucleus, so they wouldn't be incorporated into the new Mammoth.

Humans helped to kill them off. Folks like us are, most likely, the reason the mammoths died off. The tusks are useful material, the hide is useful and the meat is nourishing.

ruveyn

Why would anyone want to go back to the past? Regardless of how humans act on Earth, many species will become extinct every day. Extinction is a natural process in the environment, something people seem to forget. Sure, we have been largely responsible for masses of habitat destruction, but bringing back an extinct species...We have enough invasive species out there, the last thing we need is an artificial animal running around mutating and messing everything up. Science is not error-free, nor is it intended to be. Some creatures get phased out; let them go. The more we save things, the more things get destroyed. Haven't we tampered enough as it is? We can't change nature, because we are a part of nature, we aren't separate from it.

Because we can. Why would anyone want to go to the moon?

I want them to bring back a dinosaur.

Wow. It sounds like a great experiment, but they may be infertile because of the DNA mutation, thus no natural way to create more .

To see stuff you can't see anymore!

If I had a time machine the second-most thing I would want to see (The first being the future) are recently extinct species. Dodos, Elephant Birds, Passenger Pigeons, Carolina Parakeets, Ivory-Billed Woodpeckers, Stellar's Sea Cows, and Tasmanian Tigers are all animals that have gone extinct within the last few hundred years. People have written about them, even photographed and video taped them, but no one will ever see one alive again. Granted, Mammoths are a little different given how the climate's changed over the last 10,000+ years, and I would seriously question anyone wanting to release them into the wild. Still, they'd be awesome to see, and we keep elephants in zoos all over the world without any problems, so once we figure out how to care for the mammoths, I don't see how keeping mammoths in zoos would be any different.

Yes. It would have to be all or nothing. Theres little point in cloning one animal.
Get a viable herd going on a ranch in Canada, or in the Russian Republic. That way you could study the animals behavior in something like the wild.

The expense could be offset by tourists paying to see live mammoths.

So- it would end up being a "Pliestocene Park" - a real- but less ambitious version of Jurassic Park.

YEAH!

...and they can bring me back a new coke and a mallomar while they're at it!

What would be the point in trying to resurrect this animal? To hunt?

While I will admit to curiosity over the Mammoths as a species, I cannot see a viable reason to bring some into a world they just don't belong in.