Resurrecting The Mammoth?? Then What?

[Ohne-Fehler]

Ok do they not remember how Jurassic Park or The Lost World end? I’m not talking about the movies that were filmed in my neighbors pasture I’m talking the Michael Crichton books… there is lots of running, screaming and people getting eaten

. While this does happen in the movies too the books are better in my opinion! However in the movies the creatures take back their island and its all very happy and upbeat, the books not so much, they have prions disease and have to be exterminated by the government.

Obviously you can’t base scientific advancement on fiction, but I am so calling “I told you so” if it turns all Jurassic Park (the book)

. It is sort of interesting that science has advanced to the point where we can bring back an extinct species through cloning. I think creating a breeding population would obviously be an issue as you would need multiple donor tissue samples. Maybe they can GM them to toss in a little genetic diversity?

 

[featherbaby]

It's not nice to mess with mother nature. It's not smart either. Jurassic Park was a cautionary tale, we'd do well to listen.

We don't know what we don't know. And once we find out, it might be too late to undo it. Science and Technology can't save us from everything. Why don't we put our efforts, talents and resources to improving the lives and health of the species of animals and humans we already have?

 

[desertdarlene]

I was just reading about this on the Examiner, too. I find this interesting and I hope it leads to other animals, known to have been exterminated by humans, being brought back. I would love to see a dodo or a passenger pigeon alive and flying around.

However, there is a reason why these animals became extinct way back then. It could have been man that did it in, but perhaps not. I don't think the environment is the same as it was when these animals were alive, so they would probably not survive without help or it will always have to be in captivity. I would hate to see mammoths being released into the wild because many of the animals that live in these areas now have changed to be accustomed to live without them.

 

[Laurajean]

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I couldn't agree more.

 

[BirdNut]

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I couldn't have said it better. I agree 100%.

 

[redhen]

I dont know what next, but i have have no problems with this at all. none..