The Company Trying to Clone Woolly Mammoths

Taken from JRE #1927 w/Forrest Galante:

[Titanium]

I’ve heard about this mammoth clones since I was about 8-10 years old. I’m almost 32. If I don’t see a mammoth in my lifetime, I might a little mad 😂

[JMW_JMW_JMW]

Not sure if cloning extinct creatures is our best idea yet. It usually ends with Chris Pratt having to walk backwards while talking to them in a soothing voice.

[JimGarver-txrj]

I'm 79 years old and I hope to see videos of living Wolly Mammoths before I die.

[brandonross]

In my opinion, he's probably one of Joe rogan's most fascinating guest

[Ithoughtthiswasamerica]

As a Canadian, I can’t wait to go from riding my Moose to work to riding my Wooly Mammoth to work.

[itsdvnsh]

Imagine Woolly the mammoth getting back in the game

[cmac]

I’m not kidding you but when I was around 10 years old (20 years ago) they said they would be able to clone mammoths using frozen mammoths and elephants to clone and it would take about 20 years. This blows my mind.

[Zigarius]

When Joe has this guy on it's some of the best episodes!

[Kcrink]

In 2000, I remember watching Raising the Mammoth on the Discovery Channel. They mentioned recovering the DNA to clone a mammoth. 23 years later and we still don’t have a mammoth.

[markmirabella]

I’ve been following this for years. Such a cool project. I hope to see it in my lifetime

[AdamPopowski]

"What does an Indian elephant look like? Is it similar to an elephant?"
Let's have a wild stab in the dark there, shall we Joe? 🤣

[jonvia]

When your name is Forrest and you study animals...you've won a golden ticket to JRE land!

[claytonreid]

Love that Forrest always emphasizes where his actual knowledge base is. I am a Biochem major in university rn, and explaining the cellular processes of CRISPR is tricky as hell, so to just kinda say "this is the general concept and idk the details of this side of the science, but here's some dope info about what I do know" is definitely a sign of someone who is really passionate about the science. Have him on more please lol.

[doddsino]

I'm genuinely curious how this will even work. Zoologist for years tried hard to cross breed an Asian Elephant with an African Elephant, and it almost always ended with a miscarriage, stillborn, or in one case a live hybrid, however the baby died just a few hours later.

I also think it's rather silly to introduce a species (especially a megafauna) into an ecosystem that has recovered and moved on from the ecosystem that existed back when the Mammoths were alive.

[zbs_smith]

This is absolutely cool. Imagine in 10-15 years time you can look up and see real life videos of these extinct animals if your not able to see them yourself real life. Makes me feel excited like when I was in high school and came face to face with a panther in Newfoundland canada

[Junk_Yogurt]

"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should. " - Ian Malcolm.

[michaelrodriguez]

Jurassic Park explained DNA splicing very well in the first movie. Using different DNA can affect the looks of an animal for the most part. Ligers are a good example of how the product can look like. If they only use mammoth and Elephant DNA then it’s very likely that a woolly mammoth can be born with it’s natural esthetics. If they use other stuff then not very likely

[hughjaass]

This is getting scary AF and interesting AF at the same time.

[anthonykoulis]

Everything with Forrest is an absolute slam dunk. Have and will continue to watch everything he does.

[ShinyRedGrapple]

“Your scientists were so preoccupied with figuring out whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.” - Ian Malcolm