A modern-day woolly mammoth may be just a few years away, biotech company says

Colossal Biosciences, a Dallas-based biotechnology company, says it has developed the technology necessary to bring the woolly mammoth back from extinction. NBC News’ Morgan Chesky reports on the opportunities this new technology could bring as well as the concerns some scientists are raising.

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[OneThrustMan]

I swear I have seen this topic come up about every other year for the last 15 years of my life and nothing actually happens lol

[davidboi]

We can barely keep the elephants we have right now alive 💀

[lyraserpentine]

Um, shouldn't we restore actual habitats before creating life to popuate said habitats?

[andy]

Bringing back wooly mammoths in a warming world is the height of irresponsibility and stupidity.

[d.b.]

Your Scientists Were So Preoccupied With Whether Or Not They Could, They Didn’t Stop To Think If They Should

[pollyannaprinciple]

I believe the reason for bringing back the Woolly mammoth is to help in preventing global warming. According to the Green Mountain Energy Blog, the mammoths are "key to preventing the Arctic tundra from releasing massive amounts of greenhouse gasses stored below the surface."

[ChrisCars]

And what are the benefits of bringing an extinct animal back to life? The primary focus should be to maintain the animals/species that we currently have and need.

[WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot]

It seems like a more productive use of this technology would be to help save current endangered species on the planet, not to bring back extinct ones just for the heck of it

[JeighNeither]

They mental gymnastics this company is pulling off to convince themselves that this is somehow ethical is very impressive. What is the point? It's to enrich the company pure & simple. At it's core, this is animal cruelty for human profit.

[andrewestrada]

How about we work on protecting elephants instead of living out Jurassic Park dreams.. conservation *not* mutations

[PeggyPegg]

Wooly mammoths had their moment and they lived during an Ice Age, which we are not currently in so why would you bring them back to be tortured in an environment that is too hot?

[smathew]

There is a whole movie franchise about why this shouldn’t be done.

[meathead]

How will you train one to migrate in the wild and how to find food and what kind of food it can eat or not

[ironinsane]

Looks Like Manny Is Joining Our World
In The New Ice Age 😅

[reedcataldo]

A african elephant woolly mammoth hybrid would be so cool.

[desmeisme]

Why though to put them in zoos? They’re gone for a reason

[bingbong]

How about helping all the species on the verge of extinction or that very recently went extinct first??

[itazuranakisu]

Even though a lot of us saw Jurassic park I bet if it became a reality some people would still insist on going.

[zomgie]

Dude considering how much prehistoric man loved mammoth meat, I imagine reintroducing them will result in a Mammoth season

[justingilmore]

Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic park some of this up.We were so excited with the fact that we could.We didn't think about if we should