In order to preserve the rapidly changing Arctic due to global warming in its still more or less normal form, the Arctic wastelands need to be populated with … mammoths. Which scientists from the United States of America are going to "resurrect" using relict genetic data and modern elephants.
The project in question looks like sheer fantasy, but American scientists assure that the resurrection of mammoths is more than real - if everything goes according to plan, then in a few decades, huge woolly giants will roam the Arctic deserts.
“We plan to use mammoth cells that have survived to our times thanks to the permafrost. These are the cells of an animal that lived in Siberia more than forty thousand years ago. But the DNA of long-extinct mammoths is only half the battle, because the embryo that we hope to get from the ancient genome will need to be carried out. To do this, we employ female Asian elephants,”the scientists say.
Exactly how mammoths will contribute to the conservation of the Arctic is unclear, but scientists say that the most direct.
Kolesnikov Andrey