Mammoth Meatball Created With Extinct DNA

Food Scientists in Australia are bringing back a meat not seen in thousands of years — the Wooly Mammoth. A company called Vow injected mammoth DNA into the muscle cells of a sheep. For the missing strains of genetic code, the scientists added African elephant DNA because they’re the mammoth’s closest non-extinct relative. Mammoth meat won’t be on sale any time soon, or possibly ever. The creators say they haven’t even tasted it.

[capriumnoir]

We haven't even revived the mammoths yet and us humans have started eating them.

[RPPIK]

1970: We'll have flying cars by 2023


2023: ....Mammoth meat balls

[Kimberly-Fredrick]

"Get Mikey to eat it." "Yeah, he'll eat anything "

[rosie.johnson]

Couldn’t even be saved from becoming food after being extinct 🤦‍♀️

[jaye]

Next they'll make a Pterodactyl chicken nugget

[jacksonseyl]

I think it would nice to try a meat that hasn't been tried for thousands of years. After testing for allergens of course.

[mattlawson]

The closest living relative to the woolly mammoth is the Asian elephant, not the African elephant. There have been multiple studies about this.

[johnnygee]

Gimme a bucket of marinara sauce and a brick of parmesan cheese, and I'll give it a shot. If I can survive a McRib, I like my chances against a prehistoric meatball.

[VeryPteri]

Taking "Paleo diet" to a whole new level

[RB-khfo]

Humanity's first thought: can we eat it?

[squanchmastersquanch]

I've seen some episodes. Futurama. There's an episode exactly like this except with hotdogs. Bender made a hotdog out of a Wholly Mammoth he found in ice. Now I see this. Why anyone wants to make a meatball out of an extinct elephant is beyond me.

[profast]

Imagine something become extinct because human eat it as food and even after extinct still human eating it.

[delta]

Expectation VS Reality:

What we wanted: A Mammoth.

What we got: A Mammoth Meatball.

[AllthingsFoodieTX]

Depends what meat you eat I have seen grass fed beef has really good flavor and healthy

[shippoever]

Having a meatball that big dry without pasta sauce is a crime

[JoFlirt]

Meanwhile they haven't found a cure for cancer but making meat substitutes. Smh

[youngmasterzhi]

Next, I want to try a dodo chicken dinner meal!

[IAMAKNUCKLESFAN]

Born too early to explore space.
Born too late to explore Earth.
But we have Mammoth meat balls now 🥳

What a time to be alive.

[aydensmith]

“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.”

[Seibuhjira]

Man imagine if they decided to bring back that Ankylosaurid that was a mummy.