A modern-day woolly mammoth may be just a few years away, biotech company says
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- čas přidán 23. 03. 2024
- Colossal Biosciences, a Dallas-based biotechnology company, says it has developed the technology necessary to bring the woolly mammoth back from extinction. NBC News’ Morgan Chesky reports on the opportunities this new technology could bring as well as the concerns some scientists are raising.
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#WoollyMammoth #Science #Technology
We can barely keep the elephants we have right now alive 💀
exactly theyre gonna be vaulted now woolly mammoth being unvaulted
Facts, let’s start there lol smh crazy specially when we only have two white rhinos left out of the whole world, they should try to make more of them
Colossal just made a partnership with Re:Wild to help modern animals, biomes and enviroments.
That is in Africa tho. The countries protected elephants are dirt poor, with massive instability issues and poaching problems and extremely limited resources to combat them. Meanwhile Alaska and Siberia, they are sparsely populated with plenty of resources to protect them
@@wiccedrasta9981 you know thats what this tech can do right? and what its being developed for. its just most people dont care about that so this is what brings attention and money to conservation
I swear I have seen this topic come up about every other year for the last 15 years of my life and nothing actually happens lol
So similar to everything Elon Musk says?
Cause it already happened ;)
If you think "nothing actually happens" it's because you haven't been paying attention to the reports. Or do you think everyone on Earth is required by law to phone you up to make SURE you are aware every time they do anything?
Ah, you do? Ok, well...
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You know what? If I have to report every action of my life to you, I will have very little time to DO anything because I'll end up just reporting that I wrote my report to you. Maybe I could do my work and not bother telling a random person on the internet every step I take. And maybe no one else is required to tell you, random internet person, about every move they make in their work.
I'm still waiting for the killer bees to get here.
I have been waiting for them since the 1970s.
@@BabyJesus66I’m no Musk disciple but that’s a little uncharitable. Tesla has sold 5M cars and employees 130K people. SpaceX employs another 10K people and has north of 2B a year in revenue. He certainly shoots his mouth off but he has made an enormous impact.
Um, shouldn't we restore actual habitats before creating life to popuate said habitats?
Stop being so logical.
I’ve seen enough movies to know this does not turn out good.🫣
Send them to mars
that's fair and valid but these curiosities will be cared for in 'zoo-seums', probably. The first rung up from 'extinct' is 'extinct in the wild'.
No
Your Scientists Were So Preoccupied With Whether Or Not They Could, They Didn’t Stop To Think If They Should
You do not need to capitalize every word in a sentence.
I'm not sure as to how Wooly Mammoths would pose the same threat to the world as dinosaurs. Yes, this company could probably work on preserving endangered species which could be more useful, but it's not as if Wooly Mammoths are going to hunt humans.
@@cricketpotjar4412exactly. Besides, humans caused the extinction of the woolly mammoths and other animals so its only right we give them a second chance. Dinosaurs on the other hand should stay extinct because nature not humans caused their downfall
I hate this overused quote, so frequently championed by those with cowardly souls and little imagination.
@@stevenrubisch629 thanks for taking time out of your busy day teaching at MIT Professor.
Bringing back wooly mammoths in a warming world is the height of irresponsibility and stupidity.
Global warming doesn’t mean it’s getting wormer everywhere, all the time. But that there will be more extremes. So sometimes colder in already cold climates. So now is the time to invest in mammoth wool shares! Get your own wooly mammoth now while they last (this time around).
You sound stupid it’s too make the world colder
think of how delicious they could be.
@@jayjyamake that restaurant in the Flintstones that serves giant ribs a reality.
Idk, I saw a documentary that said the mammoth dying out is what started the ice caps melting because of something with the snow 🤷♀️
Were getting mammoths before GTA6
😂
If I see a mammoth before I see gta 6😂
GTA is coming out before the mammoth dude
And what are the benefits of bringing an extinct animal back to life? The primary focus should be to maintain the animals/species that we currently have and need.
the plan is to bring balance back
How would extinction be a threat if extinction wasn't a threat anymore? You could eat the last tiger for breakfast. then de-extinct it for lunch. In theory.
The purpose of bringing mammoths according to science, is the reason Bisons were brought back. The millions of bison that roamed the prairies allowed the soil to compact and allow other species of plants to grow. Mammoths would perform a similar functions to bison in the tundras that would prevent greenhouse gases from escaping the permafrost and further deterioration of the tundra itself from sinking in compacting as herds the top soil.
@@DARPAchief21Balance!?! Have you seen how heavy these things are? Clearly clumsy beasts!
Like the elephants, all of the a animals, look out how they just killed a mountain lion because of a hunter being in it's territory and that's what the wild does, they protect their terroritory from anyone coming into it, read a book about them. We don't allow what's out there to live, we go in their habitat and expect them to leave us alone, that's unnatural, these are not trained puppies out there, they have their natural instincts taught to them by their parents and siblings. We can't bring something back that doesn't belong in this world.
How will you train one to migrate in the wild and how to find food and what kind of food it can eat or not
There's too much money involved in creating them to turn them loose in the wild.
It'll not find enough food
They would undoubtedly live in captivity. Like most endangered species.
Ah… Mammothing 101. They figure out a way to make money on that too when they got the merchandise.
When have you ever had to train a animal what to eat.
Jurassic Park not that far away
Count me in, but only if you bring back the 1993 Ford Explorer and Jeep Wrangler.
Except they didn’t survive humans before, whereas dinosaurs and humans never coexisted
@@ecurewitz
At least the non-avian dinosaurs have never coexisted with us.
And how to feed all the animals you bring back?
They can eat the 300 million pounds of food Americans throw away every day.
Bruh just put them outside in a very, cold area. Mammoths can eat vegetation like grass and bark from trees.
@@3PICDUCK3Only if they learned how to browse before starving to death. It's not completely instinctual.
They mental gymnastics this company is pulling off to convince themselves that this is somehow ethical is very impressive. What is the point? It's to enrich the company pure & simple. At it's core, this is animal cruelty for human profit.
THEY mental gymnastics?
How about helping all the species on the verge of extinction or that very recently went extinct first??
What are you doing to help them?
did you watch the video? thats what theyre doing
There is a whole movie franchise about why this shouldn’t be done.
I don't think mammoths are going to go stomp around and eat humsns.
If we bring back woolly mammoths, they can help restore degraded ecosystems like tundras. They can do this by grazing on vegetation and making pathways for other species to follow. If you think this is a bad idea, you don't know what you're talking about.
It’s not like their gonna be in civilization, their gonna be in Siberian wilderness park🤦🏿♂️
Dinosaurs has nothing to do with mammals bro.
Mammoths are not dinosaurs lil bro
Wooly mammoths had their moment and they lived during an Ice Age, which we are not currently in so why would you bring them back to be tortured in an environment that is too hot?
Northern canada still exists
They had their moment until humans hunted them out into extinction...
Northern canada too warm now. It would need to be russia siberia or in a building that is cold.
We are in an ice age right now technically speaking. But not for long
True, we are in an ice age called the Quaternary Ice Age.@@Champsreef303
Why though to put them in zoos? They’re gone for a reason
They'll probably bring back some ancient decease we'll have to worry about
or maybe it's because of our stupidity that brings them to extinction!
I don't want them back.They're Extinctint For A Reason.
Because they were hunted down?
@@imperiomx6392 There are many species of animals and animals that have become extinct without any human reason because their validity on earth had expired. If nature wanted to save them, it would have saved them, just like all the dinosaurs became extinct but the crocodile was saved.
@@rishabhadarsh5227 thats dumb logic ur tryna say dodo died because we didnt do anything its natures choice
@@hit1067 yess exactly...
@@rishabhadarsh5227 almost 9,000 dodos eaten off by dutch invaders r u ok?
It seems like a more productive use of this technology would be to help save current endangered species on the planet, not to bring back extinct ones just for the heck of it
But this might be a good test case 🤷♀️
How about we work on protecting elephants instead of living out Jurassic Park dreams.. conservation *not* mutations
Why not both
@@ecurewitz and what's the benefit of burning the candle at both ends?
@@andrewestrada9212 you get both environmental protection and mammoths. Win-win
@@ecurewitzplus mammoths will actually help with environmental restoration that's one of the reasons they're doing it.
@@OrangeUtan1 correct
I don’t see the point of this
Good to combat global warming im not really sure what else.😅
A african elephant woolly mammoth hybrid would be so cool.
If we're really going to make genetically engineered Woolly Mammoth come back, it's environment needs to be desired for it to live out naturally, unless it'll be used as another attraction instead of focusing on fixing the environment.
Even though a lot of us saw Jurassic park I bet if it became a reality some people would still insist on going.
I'm get me a raptor and name her blue and train it to be my new best friend lol
Looks Like Manny Is Joining Our World
In The New Ice Age 😅
I don’t even think these things were extinct to begin with. Do you know how massive and remote places like Siberia are? I still believe some have survived
I'm pretty sure cloning has been going on for years without our knowledge 🤔
If you didn't have knowledge, you weren't paying attention. It has been in the news since Dolly.
I'm speaking of extinct animals..but thanks for the info
It will be interesting to discover if there will be behavioral differences already baked into the mammoth dna.
Can’t wait to see this
Great now we have to worry about killer robots AND them possibly creating a mutant mammoth.
Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic park some of this up.We were so excited with the fact that we could.We didn't think about if we should
You mean SUMMED this up.
T-Rex in 3, 2, 1...
They've been saying this since I was in 5th. Grade when they cloned that sheep. Here we are nearly 30 years later...
Lol smh I’m 37yrs old and I swear I’ve been hearing that since elementary school myself
A huge elephant tgat was home .on ice...which is melting at alarming rates....what ever could go wrong?...
Imagine someone with $ paying to bring a deceased relative using this tech 😮
Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should. No thought has been given to the repercussions of this.
Bioethicists and geneticists have been discussing this for decades, mostly as a thought experiment. But, once the tech began advancing that makes it possible to bring them back, the impact of returning the Wooly Mammoth to existence has been debated to death. The Mammoth is one of the prime test animals in part because it's had a number of well-preserved specimens, but also because it hasn't been extinct for that long. 4,000 years is a drop in the bucket for evolutionary time scale.
Uh huh, they've been saying this for years. :/
News networks have pushed this topic for the last 15+ years, and it never happens. So sick of seeing it
Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.
Theyre like snow elephants. Why shouldnt we if it helps the nature of tundra region
Please also do a Smilodon
Dang thats crazy
This could be the time where modern animals and ancient animals live together.
Science will never stop, it's about curiosity. I would love too see this prehistoric mammoth
Will be more Mammoth than Elephant.
🎵... but he was brought back to life to his surprise in the 21st century! So listen as Phil take us back to wonders of long ago and weaves the tale of Woolyville and an ice age boy named Cro! 🎵
Bring back the T-REX so it can eat Fani Willis. Jurassic Biden! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Let’s get a theme park of extinct animals too
Hopefully they get a minute detail wrong and they become the new dominant species
It's too hot for them now 😢
Worlds falling apart everywhere but thank god we can recreate mammoths.
McDonald's is exploring the idea of properly serving mammoth burgers.
Man bring back the dinosaurs. Wanna see a T-Rex in the next 25-30 years
I want to see a wooly mammoth verse a polar bear
So they’re not creating real mammoths, they’re just cloning elephant cells and creating a similar hairy elephant
And then next the T Rex.
It would probably be the raptor. I seen the scientists say that would be easier to do
If you bring back the woolly mammoth can you bring back all extinct animals
All I heard is "we found a way to grow ivory."
the return of the mammoth has been 5 years away since the 2000's iirc
But why do we "need" the woolly mammath back on the planet? Is there some sort of catastrophic deficiency in animal kingdom that will cause it to collapse if they're not brought back to life?
Introducing new species to new habitats always leads to an invasive species…why would you put one of the largest mammals in history, and just shove them out into the world just because you wanted to. So many irresponsible humans these days.
to what end, how can we be expected to ride these things when we cant even get on them
If they can bring back the wooly mammoth, they should absolutely do it!!
It's not possible. They are only creating a mutated elephant.
Slightly off topic here, but does anyone know what king of bird that is @ 1:44 ?
It's a galah. It lives in Australia.
i already found a land whale , my dads twin brother calls it wife...ugh
So your aunt...
*Mammoths aren’t an invasive species.* They’re actually an important keystone species that died out due to over-hunting by humans.
Mammoths are actually being brought back to restore an important ecosystem. This is us trying to fix what we broke.
Some studies are now pointing to changes in climate as the main driver for mega fauna extinction. Makes more sense as there were not many ancient humans as a population. And there is only so much you can do with wood, fire and stone.
I say go for it, I would love to see this happen.
Get Ian Macolm on the phone.
I suppose it can adapt to modern environment instead of relying on ancient plants for diet.
Their version?
Next up…dinosaurs and they are gonna be our pals 😂
DON'T DO IT! HE'LL BURN THE PLANET DOWN! STOP THE WOOLLY! SHUT DOWN THE WOOLLY MAMMO!
when that day happens I will play the soundtrack of Ice Age 2 the Meltdown!
The disappearance of the mammoth broke the Siberian ecosystem since it was a keystone species
We can’t even keep elephants alive💀💀💀💀
today: genetic engineer elephants to be bigger stronger
tomorrow: MASTER CHIEF
I'm getting a Jurassic Park feeling from this, regardless of what they say
Bruh, in how many years!!
yeah this does sound very..familiar 🤔
They’ve been saying this for over a decade now
Seriously, why bring a species back from extinction that nature wiped out 13,000 years ago due to the Younger Dryas???? Well they did kind of survive a little bit after that event, but not for very long due to the dramatic climate changes at the end of the last Ice Age.
Woolly Mammoth project? How does something that ambitious even secure funds? I’m working on time traveling please help. I’m already 1% there, I’ve aged.
We can’t even save the elephants currently in existence
I will believe it when I see it, but then I really hope we don't see it because I don't think they can understand the full potential of harm they could cause, not only for people, but other living things. This could have a very bad reaction on a lot of life.
So it’s not really a mammoth 🦣
“Some of the worst things imaginable have been done with the best intentions.” - Dr. Alan Grant Jurassic Park 3
Entire movie franchises dedicated to showing us how this has and always will be a terrible idea that is only gonna be met with problems
It’s like they never watched Jurassic park. Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.
“God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man. Man destroys God.”
Now bring the dodo back, too.
I wonder what they'll taste like?
Didn't they learn from Jurassic Park and dont say its not like Jurassic park because it is.
After this is brought to life, then what? I’m concerned about the well being of this soon to be mammoth. If they are responsible for creating a sentient being they are also responsible for quality of life. They need to be asked how they will handle this and be held accountable.
I remember years ago Japan was doinh similiar thing, going to bring back a dinasour and then they had a major major earthquake and tsunami, that stopped that. There are some things you are not supposed to do.
We having a hard time keeping animals from being extinct, what makes them think we can bring one back and have it thrive in today’s world? Oh wait, CRISPR?
Colossal is a for profit business. They will patent these creations and sell them to the highest bidders.
"You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could, and before you even knew what you had, you patented it, and packaged it, and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now you're selling it, you want to sell it! Well--"
Scientist: we are using DNA.
Reality: It’s an A.I. LOL
I wonder if it would be able to mate and have offsprings with modern-day elephants. 🐘
Yes!
Why not bring back the Irish elk from extinction instead? Deer hunters would go gaga crazy over that species! Imagine bringing home a rack that’s 12 feet wide and needs two people to lift it?!
To anyone who thinks that this will harm the environment or anyone drawing Jurassic Park comparisons. READ THIS…
A huge misconception that many have is that Mammoths are prehistoric. They are not comparable to the resurrection of dinosaurs. Many people don’t know this, but Mammoths are actually missing from our CURRENT ecosystem. They only went extinct 10,000 years ago. They have been living alongside our wolves, cougars, bears, everything for millions of years. They are a missing piece of our ecosystem. Bringing back mammoths is habitat restoration
If you still have doubts, we have done this before. An example in America is the reintroduction of Bison (buffalo). The Bison when reintroduced massively boosted the ecosystem. We saw a huge increase of the health of larger animal populations such as wolves, but not only that, the return of various fauna and flora to the area. The grass was healthier even
Not to mention the economic benefits. Ecotourism would be thriving, as well as it would create a huge boost of interest and investment into bio research
This is objectively a great thing
The plant life has changed so much. All the plants used to be enormous.
That's what is needed to sustain the lives of all the massive creatures from the past. That's why they're not around anymore.
If they do this, the poor creatures will have to live out their lives in captivity.
They are not thinking of the well being of the animals.
They should try to bring back some predators too like smilodon or shortface bear. Let them roam the national parks.
Your content is astronomical. Let's collab and explore the universe!
So pumped