Could Mammoths Survive Nowadays?

Could Mammoths Survive Nowadays?

Mammoths include a number of extinct elephant-related species that once roamed the earth. They are most closely related to today's Asian elephants rather than African elephants. They looked similar to other proboscideans. They had long trunks and long, curved tusks. Whilst some species were exceptionally large, standing at 13 feet or 4 meters at the shoulder and weighing over 12 tonnes, most were smaller and a similar size to today's Asian elephants.
The oldest known species is considered to be the South African mammoth whose fossils date back 5 million years ago, during the early Pliocene. They were common in southern and Eastern Africa. From there, mammoths migrated northwards, evolving into other species of the mammoth as they did so.
Fossil evidence suggests that southern mammoths gave rise to steppe mammoths in Asia around 1.7 million years ago. Then, much more recently, steppe mammoths gave rise to the woolly mammoth. These species dispersed out of Asia, into Europe and North America.
The mammoths crossed over into North America via the Bering land bridge approximately one and a half million years ago. From there, the American mammoths evolved into the Columbian, Jefferson's, and the Channel Islands' pygmy mammoths.
But more recent DNA evidence disputes the simplicity of this timeline, suggesting there was more of an overlap between species.
Mammoths were a common sight across the globe during the Pleistocene. But could they survive today?

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[hoodedrage]

Your voice sounds like the narrator for 90s movie trailers. “This summer” “In a world” “coming to theaters near you”. I needa rewatch old movies to hear that voice again, so nostalgic

[LordRumshi]

If mammoths were brought back to life, they’d likely just be in very small numbers as cloning an animal that large would be challenging. A research facility in South Korea has been successful in cloning dogs but a mammoth would be much more complex to cloning and bringing back to life.

[jabbarmuhammad]

I wish woolly mammoths could survive today I would like to see one

[denizen]

I would have liked to have seen the huge Columbian mammoth survive. Most people still think that all mammoths were woolly mammoths.

[arkprice]

Great video. Could you please upload could cassowaries survive in the Amazon rainforest

[dmandaman]

Let's just say their was a species of mammoths that had somehow survived to today, I think they would've had to evolve to be more like elephants. Less to no hair, smaller tusks, etc. Predators today aren't as big or as plentiful as they were then, so that would benefit them. However their existence might have made some, if not all predators bigger than what they r today simply cuz of the size of a grown mammoth being way to big for any one predator. But I'm talking as if a species somehow survived to today. If scientists were to just make a few and just drop them into our world today, they would not survive. Not just cuz of the climate and change in food. But also cuz of us. Their wasn't cars or big buildings or anything like that to limit where they could go. People at that time also didn't have guns that put them down in one shot. Basically, not only could they not adapt to today's climate, but also to our technology advancement since their time on this planet

[bjmccann]

How about cheetahs in North America? I'd like to see how they'd fair in Mexico and the US southwest.

[istari]

The other problem is how do you raise a mammoth to be a mammoth? Initially, there would be no other mammoths around to care for and train the new ones. Would it work to put the calf or calves in with modern-day elephants? Or would it be rejected?

[joeribaars]

Their multiple YouTube video's about bringing back the mammoth and all point out that if they bring it back it will create the steps by crushing trees and grazing and it would help the climate because crushed permafrost stays cold. We as humans are the greatest treat but if we protect the mammoth they could easily survive and reproduce.

[patg]

main issue would be a lack of food, water and issues with human areas (esp farms and woodlands) What you see in africa and asia with those beasts raiding farms and messing up the landscape is basically what would more or less happen (just slightly larger and a lot more fur on them)

[BigBrotherTheWatcher]

It might not be a Mammoth but I would love to see a Palaeoloxodon Namadicus. Since it was a herbivore, I don't think it would have issues surviving today.

[socioisbackapparently]

Nice video. Future idea for a video is what if the bering land bridge still existed lol

[rickybryan]

Is t the reintroduce mammoth project part of helping the steppe ecosystem?

[heefonepang]

Boss maybe you should make a video of could velociraptors survive nowadays

[DivineMultiForce]

“Help me, I’m stuck step-mammoth” - Southern Mammoth

[duckdestroyer]

I wonder what North America and technically South America, if humans never crossed the land bride?

[nonope]

For anyone wondering, Woolly Mammoths can absolutely survive today. The last Woolly Mammoths were killed around 2, 000 B.C. (and take a wild guess why they died out then - protip: it wasn't inbreeding and this fucking robot is lying). There are enormous swaths of land even today in Siberia, Canada and Scandinavia where Woolly Mammoths could still live. It wasn't climate change that wiped out the Late Pleistocene megafauna. It was humans. This "the mammoth steppe is gone!" nonsense is one of many trendy myths created out of whole cloth by modern """paleontologists""" to explain why "axchually climate change killed the mammoth". Not only is there still mammoth steppe in places like Siberia, but Woolly Mammoths didn't just inhabit mammoth steppe. Also there were tropical elephants even 12, 000 years ago, but for god's sake nobody mention them! There's a good reason nu-paleontologists *always* avoid talking about the extinction of tropical animals at the "end" of the Pleistocene (we're still in the Pleistocene). Climate change can't explain them.

[thomaslietzau]

EXACTLY AN ECOSYSTEM THAT THE MAMMOTH NEEDS NO LONGER AVAILABLE

[galadethlaernis]

They wouldn't survive... everything's warmer now. Things and climate evolve. Let's try to save what we already have! So much barbaric poaching going on that more common species are already diminishing and tragically under threat!

[Shigeru]

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