@nixCraft@mastodon.socialA complete genome has been extracted from a 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth, which might bring us closer to resurrecting the species https://www.newscientist.com/article/2439218-woolly-mammoth-dna-exceptionally-preserved-in-freeze-dried-jerky/ The real question is, should we resurrect the long-extinct species? What could go wrong? 
@nixCraft First read "gnome".
@nixCraft Just because science can do a thing, does not mean that they should do the thing!
@nixCraft What vould go wrong?
A mammoth zombies apocalypse !? 
Yes, definitely. Then stick it on an island and call it Wooly World.
Our ancestors killed them all, and maybe for good reasons. Maybe they were extremely annoying, or would've taken over the world.
@nixCraft Press the button. Do it. Do it. Do it.
@nixCraft Scientifically? I'd be curious, it would be so cool to see one in real life (like any other extinct animal) but I'm pretty sure an elephant would be needed to carry it? I'm not sure an extinct animal can be 100% recreated, a hybrid maybe but happy to be told otherwise by those qualified. Morally? Absolutely not. We havent got time to be messing about. Humans need to concentrate on saving the animals we have left that are on the brink of extinction due to human induced climate disaster.
@nixCraft Idk what it says about my mental state, but I read genome as gnome for the first 3 times I read that. And I was thinking: "wait there were garden gnomes back in the mammoth era?"
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Funny how humans fantasize resurrecting dead species but not preventing actual endangered species from being extinct 
@nixCraft Hrm. Big Hollywood movie title: Mammoth Park.
There's a park full of cloned mammoths, but they had to replace some of the DNA with elephant genetics, for the sake of diversity and a breeding population.
The mammoths soon get out of control and begin rampaging around the place, because an elephant never forgets all the horrible things the human race has done to them in the name of science!
What could go wrong ?
@nixCraft I see nothing wrong with that. It cannot become an invasive species.
Small and adaptive species (wide range of food sources, tolerance to extreme temps, high mobility) are of concern.
@nixCraft Maybe. But where would you place ðem, ðô?
@nixCraft Have we learned nothing from Jurassic Park!
The movie Pleistocene Park is about this. It’s a documentary.
/TLWW (too long, won’t watch): it’s a wild idea that some people believe in that bringing back natural ecosystems with large animals can help fight climate change. I think this is well worth a watch.