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Russian scientists hope to clone woolly mammoths, cave lions and some extinct species of horses within ten years, then present the animals before paying the tourists in a theme park. The Siberian report.
Call it a slightly less terrifying version of Jurassic Park, the famous film franchise based on the idea of cloning missing animals and then taking money from the tourists who pay them to see them. In the movies, the scientists clash formidable T-Rex, velociraptors and other dinosaurs, terrifying species that have disappeared for tens of millions of years. But the species that the Yakutsk Northeast Federal University (NEFU) intends to clone have only been extinct for about 10,000 years and have even rubbed shoulders with modern humans.
As global warming melts permafrost in the northern Russian Arctic, perfectly preserved specimens of extinct animals emerge from the once frozen ground. The animals are so well preserved that the scientists think they will be able to extract undegraded DNA samples from the animals (you'll remember it. Jurassic Park, the DNA was incomplete and compensated with … well, do not get into the spoilers).
So, while Jurassic Park is out of the realm of opportunity – for now, anyway – Woolly Mammoth Park might not be more than a decade away, depending on the evolution of cloning technology. At least, it's the hope of Evgenia Mikhailova.
Woolly mammoth cloning will be successful in the next 10 years, predicts the chief of the region assigned to their home. Aisen Nikolaev, chief of the Yakutia region https://t.co/J6Jh7BZI5n pic.twitter.com/CQPtVGJ0qP
– The Siberian Times (@ siberian_times) September 18, 2018
The university administrator says that with the right investment (about $ 5.9 million), the region will have a "world-class paleo-genetic science center". In addition, the regional government of the Sakha Republic promised this money.
The Siberian The article does not specifically mention a theme park, however. But, according to Fox News, one of the project leaders, spoke of an "Ice Age theme park" before – in 2014 in particular.
"The perspective was no longer fantastic. Today, technology is evolving at an explosive rate and what yesterday seemed like scientific nonsense is now an absolutely clear prospect for scientists. "
The Russians (in collaboration with South Korean and Japanese scientists) are not the only ones considering the cloning of woolly mammoths. Professor George Church, a geneticist at Harvard University, also thinks that his team can get woolly mammoth genes into an Asian elephant embryo by 2020.
So, what is the idea of an "Ice Age Park"? Although the woolly mammoths and missing horses that the Russians want to bring back are herbivores, the likelihood that they will light the guests and eat them is relatively small. But the cave lions, on the other hand …
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