Entrepreneur plans to resurrect woolly mammoths

Re:Entrepreneur plans to resurrect woolly mammoths by gazookgaboot on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @10:22AM (#28525269)

Mammoth is literally the hardest animal to do this for. Why not the dodo? Or anything smaller/with a faster generation time. I guess that wouldn't bring in investors and reporters...

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Re:Entrepreneur plans to resurrect woolly mammoths by onychomys on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @11:16AM (#28526114)

It has a super long generation time, but at least we have a very large number of carcasses to work from. There's nearly no dodo DNA laying around.

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Re:Entrepreneur plans to resurrect woolly mammoths by quickthrower2 on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @10:32AM (#28525420)

I’m up for bringing back the dodo: at least we reverse the damage we’ve done that way

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Re:Entrepreneur plans to resurrect woolly mammoths by nickserv on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @11:45AM (#28526528)

We have much more experience cloning mammals than birds.

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Re:Entrepreneur plans to resurrect woolly mammoths by peteradio on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @10:26AM (#28525324)

who wants to eat a dodo? no thanks.

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Re:Entrepreneur plans to resurrect woolly mammoths by JoeAltmaier on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @11:55AM (#28526675)

They're extinct precisely because they were very, very tasty.

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Re:Entrepreneur plans to resurrect woolly mammoths by codr7 on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @01:10PM (#28527714)

Probably more like edible and very easy to catch and kill.

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Re:Entrepreneur plans to resurrect woolly mammoths by JoeAltmaier on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @04:02PM (#28530276)

A favorite spot of mariners for a century, because of the taste.

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Re:Entrepreneur plans to resurrect woolly mammoths by xgulfie on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @11:54AM (#28526664)

apparently a lot of sailors because that's how they went extinct

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