52,000-year-old woolly mammoth chromosomes reconstructed from 'jerky-like' skin
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Re: 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth chromosomes reconstructed from 'jerky-like' skin
#2The caps are melting and some people are all in on bringing back the woolly mammoth.
How about the woolly rhino while we're at it? Maybe open a zoo in Death Valley to house 'em.
Re: 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth chromosomes reconstructed from 'jerky-like' skin
#3The caps are melting and some people are all in on bringing back the woolly mammoth. How about the woolly rhino while we're at it? Maybe open a zoo in Death Valley to house 'em.
Gotta reproduce that mammoth jerky somehow.
Re: 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth chromosomes reconstructed from 'jerky-like' skin
#4The caps are melting and some people are all in on bringing back the woolly mammoth. How about the woolly rhino while we're at it? Maybe open a zoo in Death Valley to house 'em.
Woolly mammoths were a geoengineer species that have no living proxy. Bringing them back is definitely a controversial project, but there's a case to be made that de-extincting the woolly mammoth could help prevent permafrost from melting.
Re: 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth chromosomes reconstructed from 'jerky-like' skin
#5The caps are melting and some people are all in on bringing back the woolly mammoth. How about the woolly rhino while we're at it? Maybe open a zoo in Death Valley to house 'em.
Curiously, it turns out that elephants eating fauna actually promotes plant and tree growth. I remember reading something (ca 2007?) about the possibility that reintroducing elephants to the American Southwest could lead to reforestation of areas that are currently desert.
Which, of course, doesn’t really provide good justification for de-extinctifying the mammoth (although as I say this, I wonder if they might acually play a role in preserving the permafrost, as per this recent Science Friday story: https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/becoming-earth-how-li... )
Re: 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth chromosomes reconstructed from 'jerky-like' skin
#6The caps are melting and some people are all in on bringing back the woolly mammoth. How about the woolly rhino while we're at it? Maybe open a zoo in Death Valley to house 'em.
Curiously, it turns out that elephants eating fauna actually promotes plant and tree growth. I remember reading something (ca 2007?) about the possibility that reintroducing elephants to the American Southwest could lead to reforestation of areas that are currently desert. Which, of course, doesn’t really provide good justification for de-extinctifying the mammoth (although as I say this, I wonder if they might acual…
In that case the humans started the global warming when made the mammoths extinct - how ironic, the industrial revolution is just the top of the cake
Re: 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth chromosomes reconstructed from 'jerky-like' skin
#7Would it be possible, with today's technology, to clone a woolly mammoth?
Re: 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth chromosomes reconstructed from 'jerky-like' skin
#8The caps are melting and some people are all in on bringing back the woolly mammoth. How about the woolly rhino while we're at it? Maybe open a zoo in Death Valley to house 'em.
The correlation coefficient between # mammoths and ice cap extent is like, r=0.9 over the last 40,000 years.
Obviously we need to bring the mammoths back, if we want to fix the global climate.
Re: 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth chromosomes reconstructed from 'jerky-like' skin
#9Would it be possible, with today's technology, to clone a woolly mammoth?
They're actively trying:
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/animals/a42708517/s...
Re: 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth chromosomes reconstructed from 'jerky-like' skin
#10The caps are melting and some people are all in on bringing back the woolly mammoth. How about the woolly rhino while we're at it? Maybe open a zoo in Death Valley to house 'em.
The correlation coefficient between # mammoths and ice cap extent is like, r=0.9 over the last 40,000 years. Obviously we need to bring the mammoths back, if we want to fix the global climate.
Apparently, the presence of pirates is correlated with global cooling too:
https://doctorspaghetti.org/pastafarians-pirates-and-climate...
Harrr!