Info Of Woolly Mammoth On Verge Of Resurrection, Scientists Reveal

Scientist leading ‘de-extinction’ test says Harvard squad could practice hybrid mammoth-elephant embryo inwards ii years

Woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius), a model of an extinct Ice Age mammoth. Photograph: Andrew Nelmerm/Getty Images/Dorling Kindersley

The woolly mammoth vanished from the public 4,000 years ago, but instantly scientists nation they are on the brink of resurrecting the ancient creature inwards a revised form, through an ambitious feat of genetic engineering.

Speaking ahead of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual coming together inwards Boston this week, the scientist leading the “de-extinction” test said the Harvard squad is but ii years away from creating a hybrid embryo, inwards which mammoth traits would endure programmed into an Asian elephant.

“Our aim is to hit a hybrid elephant-mammoth embryo,” said Prof George Church. “Actually, it would endure to a greater extent than similar an elephant amongst a let out of mammoth traits. We’re non at that topographic point yet, but it could come about inwards a pair of years.”

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