Japan to Revive Extinct Mammoths
It sounds like something right out of Jurassic Park but scientists in Japan have plans to bring the long-extinct mammoth back to life using cloning technology within the next 5 years.
Akira Iritani, a professor emeritus at Kyoto University in Japan, is looking to resurrect the woolly mammoth using a new cloning technique.
The plan would take genes from a mammoth and insert them into an embryo which would be placed inside an elephant. If the clone is successful a baby mammoth would be born.
No doubt this will spark an ethical debate about reviving extinct species and cloning.
Some scientists say the odds of getting the necessary mammoth tissue and creating a successful clone in five years are less than 50-50.
Mammoths have been extinct for about 8,000 years.
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