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This isn't entirely true. They can't clone a woolly mammoth, no matter how preserved the frozen tissue may be. Dead DNA has a half life of around 520 years so, given that the last known mammoth died 4,000 years ago, that's seven half life's - less than one percent of the original base pairs will remain (which is also why the Jurassic Park story could never happen. After 65 million years nothing would remain). What they are attempting to do is genetically manipulate an Asian elephant to give it the characteristics of a woolly mammoth. Their website states: "Colossal’s landmark de-extinction project will be the resurrection of the woolly mammoth - or more specifically a cold-resistant elephant with all of the core biological traits of the woolly mammoth. It will walk like a woolly mammoth, look like one, sound like one, but most importantly it will be able to inhabit the same ecosystem previously abandoned by the mammoth’s extinction." It's therefore a bit disingenuous of them to also state that one of their goals is to "demonstrate that it's possible to bring back an extinct megafauna species". To me, "bring back" would mean to come up with an actual, real living mammoth, not a manipulated elephant that looks and behaves like one. They also make no claims as to whether the animals they "create" will be able to breed and pass on their new characteristics, and whether they will be able to be reintroduced into the wild. I suspect not, but would be happy to be proven wrong. https://colossal.com/mammoth/

Two Irishmen walk past a bar... Well it could happen.

It's so annoying when people use the wrong word & don't have the humidity to admit when they’re wrong.

Went to see a UB40 tribute band last night called WD40. They were a bit rusty to start off with, but soon loosened up.