British scientists are going to resurrect mammoths by 2028 (3 photos)

No, you heard right. The British company Colossal Biosciences plans

take us back to the stone age

reconstruct the woolly mammoth genome using samples from excavated specimens, filling in the DNA gaps of modern Asian elephants.





The company's roughly 115 in-house scientists and 60 external employees plan to turn the elephants into surrogate mothers and then persuade the government to release the resulting population into the wild.

According to plans, the baby of a species that went extinct 4 thousand years ago will be born in five years - by 2028, writes the Daily Mail.

Colossal CEO and co-founder Ben Lamm does not see anything unnatural in the experiment:

This is a very charismatic creature and we will be incredibly lucky that in about 10,000 years, people will begin to love mammoths just like us.



The company also needs to find partners among states that would allow the release of mammoths on their territories. The population will live in the tundra. Colossal Biosciences says the feeding behavior of woolly mammoths will have a positive impact on these lands. Allegedly, this will have a good effect on the amount of carbon in the atmosphere and will contribute to the preservation of permafrost.

Experiments with population reproduction began in connection with the melting of permafrost in the Arctic Circle. The remains of woolly mammoths are increasingly being discovered there, so there is no shortage of genetic material.



However, as the Daily Mail clarifies, there are studies according to which the “revival” of mammoths is likely to cause losses in the form of lost scientific resources.

I'm not against cloning. But they are against using it to solve environmental problems and even climate change. Unfortunately, the effect could be negative because funding is diverted to risky and ineffective methods, said Joseph Bennett, an assistant professor in the department of biology, ecology and interdisciplinary sciences at Carleton University in Ottawa.

In response, Colossal Biosciences CEO Ben Lamm said that his company is attracting private investors and does not seek funding through scientific grants.

Colossal Biosciences also wants to “bring back” the Mauritian dodo (dodo bird) and the marsupial (Tasmanian) wolf.

An analogue of Jurassic Park is planned to be launched by 2028.