Bringing Back the Woolly Mammoth

Some scientists want to genetically engineer elephants to be more like woolly mammoths. Could this save elephants from extinction–– AND save us from climate change?

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PRODUCTION CREDITS

Digital Production:
Tiffany Dill

Production Assistance:
Ari Daniel

Editorial Review:
Julia Cort

"CAN WE MAKE LIFE?"
Produced and Directed By:
Larry Klein

© WGBH Educational Foundation 2018

MEDIA CREDITS

Visuals:
pixabay
Shutterstock
wikimedia | Brocken Inaglory

Music:
APM

[stefancarter]

Clown music...makes the science seem legit

[BMod]

Scientist: "This is really serious scientific biological experiment"
NOVA PBS editor: "lets overlay the duck quack kazoo circus music"

[RockySheperd]

Mark my words: Before the year 2050, we WILL bring back the Wooly Mammoth.

#MammothsReborn

[BMod]

"Some say restoring Woolly Mammoths could fight climate change"

*Brings a heavily furred creature evolved to survive ice ages into a present which is ~50 degrees hotter.
Woolly Mammoths: "I'm really fucking hot, being alive sucks, I think I'm going to just go back to being extinct, bye"
*global temperature continues to rise....

[richardashton]

We should put turtle DNA in cheetahs; that will slow them down, saving more grazers from being converted to kitty litter.

[chenhoward]

Yea but the Albedo of the earth will increase near the arctic, causing more heat to be absorbed

[ritubalakaushal]

I want to bring back to woolly mammoths too

[rgithmark]

Love the concept in this video, just find the music very loud and distracting to how cool this theory is.

[skinnydavenport]

I am really counting on taking my mammoth Ellie to the clinic when I get my vaccine this weekend...wish me luck hopefully dad won't make an issue about it...

[BitterComments]

Mammoths to help fight climate change? That guy just wants to live out his Jurassic Park fantasies with a mammoth

[InspectorCallahan.]

He kind of looks like a Woolly Mammoth.

[ThatElf-ow]

Woolly mammoths are my favorite animal

[darkhawkrblx]

Well, Let's hope woolly mammoths come back. #MammothsRebornFromExtinction

[hennylin]

So if the wolly mammoth is already in the world what are you ganna place the wolly mammoth from the zoo or making a prehistoric zoo

[Wildman-lcur]

I want to see wholly mammoths walk the earth before I die

[thomaslietzau]

is there an ecosystem that could handle Mammoths ? and where would that be ?

[josh-themighty]

Please bring back the Woolly mammoth! We owe it to them as a species. Not only that it would be incredible and we have somewhere for them to live and they could help in preventing all the methane gas escaping. Would be so so amazing to bring the Wooly mammoth back from extinction! :)

[extra]

For that to work you can also put them in a cold room.

[incendio]

Haven’t they learned anything from Jurassic park

[glennsommer]

I want this music. What's the name, I can't find it by searching APM