I hear them woolly mammoths are good eatings. If they could have been hunted to extinction by early humans then they must have been very tasty,

Originally posted by Solomons
60,000 years ago there were no dinosaurs,anyway im guessing they would just be bringing it back for research purposes,not to inhabit earth again.Like someone said,they went extinct for a reason,species go extinct everyday,its natural.

Yup, and humans came very close to extinction about 70,000 years ago.

Most mammoths died off during the ice age, only a few small populations survived and they might have been killed off by humans in the last 2-3 thousand years.

Do we really want to do this and beat nature at its own game? Nature does everthing for a purpose. If the wooly mammoth went extinct shouldn't it stay as it is instead of humankind messing around with it not knowing what the consequences may be?

In theory, we should be able to bring Wooly Mammoths back by adding Mammoth DNA to an elephant egg. The elephant surrogate mother shouldn't have too much trouble carrying the mammoth/elephant hybrid to term.

But to truly bring the species back, wouldn't we need to make a bunch of these hybrids, from several different bloodlines? Then choose the ones with the most mammoth like traits and breed them together and continue doing this for generations until all elephant traits are basically bred out leaving as close to a true mammoth as possible. To make 1 mammoth might be do-able for $10mill, but this isn't really bringing back the species. Just a single example, and even it would be a hyrid, would it not?

As for doing the same for neanderthals....any volunteers? It'll take a village.