Scientists are working to bring back the woolly mammoth, dodo, and Tasmanian tiger using 65 mammoth genomes and tools like laser-based genome editing. They'll coordinate with governments and Indigenous groups to reintroduce them to the wild, while sharing some technologies for human healthcare and conservation.
The 3 animals that you want to focus on first are the woolly mammoth, the dodo, and the Tasmanian tiger. And, and how you would actually go about bringing a woolly mammoth back.
What you have to do is you have to collect a lot of mammoth DNA. The longer we go back, the more fragmented it is. It degrades very quickly over time. And so we have about 65 mammoth genomes that are ranging from, uh, about 3,500 years ago all the way back to 700,000. So our goal is to use genetics and genetic rescue, advanced embryology, lasers, all these crazy things to essentially bring back extinct species or proxies for those species, put them back into the wild in collaboration with governments, indigenous people groups, and others, and then take some of those technologies that we build and apply some of them to human healthcare, but then make the others available for free to conservation.
