This Is Why Scientists Want To Bring Back The Woolly Mammoth

Explore the fascinating world of de-extinction as we delve into the reasons why scientists are eager to bring back the magnificent woolly mammoth. Join us on a journey through time to uncover the environmental, scientific, and ethical motivations behind this ambitious project. Don't miss this captivating exploration of the past and the future of our planet! Subscribe for more exciting science content.

[cinthialara]

Great video by the way, i have a question by chance can the megalania be cloned by altering the DNA of the komodo dragon, simosuchus it is possible to recreate simosuchus, one of the only plant eating cocrodilians, by mixing DNA of modern cocodriles/alligators and herbivorous lizards to resurrect, ambulocetus by altering and reversing the DNA of Dolphins, creating amphibious mammalian crocodile-like carnivorous ambulocetus, chalicotherium and ancylotherium by mixing DNA of horses(its living relatives)with some other suitable animals(horse/gorilla for chalicotherium, horss/giraffe/goat for ancylotherium etc)to bring this group of herbivorous mammals back and gigantophitecus it is possible to resurrect the gigantophitecus altering DNA of orangutan is there a chance of that happening or having a result?it's just an example

[Holmberg]

This is a really high quality video, you definetly deserve more views!

[fayaz]

Nice content and useful, Congrats keep doing it

[tedbomba]

The planet is experiencing a shocking number of species extinctions each and every day because of man's activities. Perhaps the money and the efforts of scientists would be better spent on finding solutions for stemming the problems of the here and now that mankind is facing rather than working on what amounts to a vanity project. What benefit is the de-extinction of the wolly mammoth when there are much bigger problems facing us ?
Thanks for an excellent video; I look forward to watching more of your work.

[TrashBoat__]

So happy you didn’t use ai for the voice over, great video man love to learn things and you delivered

[stickplayer]

Yes, revive a huge arctic animal at a time when all existing arctic animals are dying off from habitat loss. Real big brains here. /s

[sarantissporidis]

It's not going to be a true mammoth but a genetically modified elephant, yet it's not going to be too far from the hybrids that were roaming the steppe back then.
Its re-introduction to the ecosystem is not something that will occur in a day, but gradually achieved process.
There is a location suitable to sustain a mammoth population to begin with, and that of course is Pleistocene park in Yacutia, Siberia where a mammoth steppe ecosystem is being recreated from scratch.
It's not a secret that the people behind the resurrection of the mammoth have promised Sergei and Nikita Zimov, owners of Pleistocene park a certain number of mammoth hybrids to be introduced there.
So, there is actually no issue about the sustainability of the new species, the whole argument reminds me the physicists who were denying the first flight of the Right brothers because it didn't fit to their theories.

[luisa.acevedo]

The resurrection of the wooly mammoth is the genetic engineering equivalent of the moon's landing.

[erepsekahs]

Do it. It is too magnificent not to, and I cannot see how it would have a negative impact on our ecology.

[luiscastrosabido]

Excellent video I have an opinion that it is possible to use genetic manipulation by reactivating the genes of birds since they are descendants of dinosaurs, regressing evolution by modifying and altering bird embryos, as is the case with synapsids since they are relatives of the mammals that lived in the cretaceous during the time of the dinosaurs, it is also ethical to use genetic manipulation techniques to reactivate the gene segments of mammals that continue in their dna since they have mammary glands and fur like their extinct ancestors had, going back in their evolution to alter and modify them genetically although technology advances rapidly, it is still considered very far away, so much progress is required for this type of cloning what is yor opinion?

[scottowens]

What happened to all the hub bub about the flatulence of cow's ? What's millions of elephant farts going to achieve? What about the stream runoff and bacteria issues? These are standard arguments used by the same people who think this is a good idea.

[paulmcclung]

How about some actual questions? Rather than a buzzword salad.

1) What's to stop ivory and trophy hunters from heading north and poaching animals with no experience in being hunted?
2) If no humans hunting them; what is going to keep their numbers in check? No dire wolves or big cats.
3) Tundra does not heal when damaged, because the summer is only 6 weeks long.
4) Talk to the people in India and Africa who live with wild elephants going through their farms and even houses. Then ask those people in Siberia how they feel about the idea. Anyone planning to give then an elephant gun in case a bull goes amok?
5) Who is going to raise these animals to adulthood? Elephants raise and teach their young. In the Tropics. So how are these animals going to learn to live in the Arctic?
6) Got any data that grassland stores more carbon than forest?
7) If genetic engineering is capable of resurrecting an extinct species, why aren't they preventing extinction of endangered animals?
8) How is a project like this any different, in essence, from draining swamps and drying out wetlands in the 1930's? Fiddling around with new toys, because they can rather than understanding the long-term consequences.
9) There is no consensus on what killed the megafauna. Disease, climate change or over hunting. Or all three. So what are the chances of a new species surviving?
10) And speaking of disease; are the disease from tropical elephant hybrids going to kill off current native species in the Arctic?

[creaturafauna]

I wonder how much they’ll charge for a hunt tag?

[brianSalem]

Will it behave like a mammoth or an elephant? Baby mammals learn a lot of behavior from their mothers.

[standingbear]

this is 100% stupid. now it is an invasive species and there is no place for them except in pens and cages. cruel

[carinarosales]

They should bring it back to life but the climate and the food sources are not compatible

[Jaymaster]

we need them badly so they can melt permafrost

[majorbruster]

Did the sands of time blow over the windswept grassy steppes of the far north?

[Jaymaster]

we need the numbers to increase to trillions ill take years.

[StevenIvy-jo]

Interesting right up until you start with the global warming/CO2 propaganda. Then I shut you off.