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Russia's response to "Jurassic Park" will be inhabited by woolly mammoths born again in less than a decade, according to the acting head of the Sakha Republic in Russia, Aisen Nikolaev.
This "miracle" will occur in a decade, said Nikolaev at the Eastern Economic Forum (EIF) in Vladivostok, highlighting the country's collaboration with Korean and Japanese scientists.
"We are actively working with South Korea" he said, predicting that the resurrection of the extinct woolly beasts is imminent. "In 2014, a group of my friends and I proposed a project to create an ice age park with mammoths – everyone laughed then, but they're not laughing anymore.
The Republic of Sakha, also known as Yakutia, is home to the Pleistocene Park, a version of the Jurassic Park dating back to the Ice Age, which seeks to recreate the dominant ecosystem when mammoths have flourished.
Nikolaev, however, thinks it is not fantastic to think that cloned animals will be walking in the nature reserve in the near future. "It's the project of the future" he told the Russian media. "I think that in the life of our generation, we will be able to clone mammoths.
"Jurassic Park" real? Siberian laboratory to clone extinct mammals
All the prerequisites for that are there » he added, adding that technology was evolving at an explosive pace.
Cloning experiments have already begun in the region on ancient horses and extinct cave lions for the revolutionary restoration of the woolly mammoth, reports the Siberian Times.
In 2012, a research institute of the Republic of Sakha signed an agreement with the Sooam Biotech Research Foundation of South Korea, in which it stated its intention to produce a live mammoth. Meanwhile, Harvard researchers have also been work on creating a hybrid woolly mammoth and elephant. If the cloning attempts succeed, these creatures would also be brought to the Pleistocene Park.
Ice Park? Russian and South Korean scientists clone woolly mammoth
The majority of woolly mammoths disappeared 10,000 years ago. However, a small population has suffered in northern Siberia for about 6,000 years after mammoths disappeared from the mainland.
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