wow

'She perfect and she's beautiful,' said Yukon government paleontologist Dr. Grant Zazula of Nun cho ga, the first whole baby woolly mammoth found in North America and second in the world. You can see her well-preserved trunk, ears and tail. (Government of Yukon)

lots more
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/fr ... -1.6501128

Poor lil' guy.

But his DNA may found a new herd of mammoths...what a legacy. At the very least, a new herd of mammoth scientists .

Woolly mammoth on verge of resurrection, scientists reveal

Scientist leading ‘de-extinction’ effort says Harvard team could create hybrid mammoth-elephant embryo in two years

https://www.theguardian.com/science/201 ... scientists

Woolly coated Mammoth resurrected just in time for climate change to make the coat highly irritating and redundant. Have they thought this idea through? or is it another case of applied science reaping the hole from its blind-spot?

Unless the planet changes it's tilt there will be still be darkness at the poles for 3 months and = colder weather regardless. The species has a wide climate range and much will depend on host variety for the attempt....I'm quite sure they've thought it through from that aspect.

Macdoc wrote:But his DNA may found a new herd of mammoths...what a legacy. At the very least, a new herd of mammoth scientists .

Woolly mammoth on verge of resurrection, scientists reveal

Scientist leading ‘de-extinction’ effort says Harvard team could create hybrid mammoth-elephant embryo in two years

https://www.theguardian.com/science/201 ... scientists

My take on this from more than a decade ago... I don't feel my position has changed:

http://www.rationalskepticism.org/biolo ... ml#p675629
http://www.rationalskepticism.org/news- ... l#p1103117

Even laying aside any moral or ecological considerations: it's not really a mammoth we'd be bringing back; it's just the genotype of a mammoth adapted to a world that no longer exists.