Team Of Japanese Genetics Experts Hope To Bring Woolly Mammouths Back From Extinction

A group of Japanese genetics scientists hope to eventually find a long extinct woolly mammoth from the frozen tundra in Siberia, and using either frozen sperm or DNA, impregnate an elephant and bring a hybrid version of a prehistoric dinosaur era animal back to life. Many scientists discount this research into reviving a long extinct animal species by the use of sperm or DNA claiming the DNA or sperm may be too fragmented or degraded, yet these scientists are hopeful that suitable sperm or DNA preserved by the freezing cold of Siberia will yield a good enough sample to create a hybrid species.

Some pretty well preserved portions of the prehistoric animals closely related to elephants have been found before and put on display around the world in museum settings. But whether a suitably preserved sample of woolly mammouth DNA or sperm can be found to revive the species in hybrid form is a huge question. But this could mark the only possible chance to create a hybrid species from an extinct species from the dinosaur era, as all other species appear far too degraded, while the severe cold of Siberia where the woolly mammouths once roamed do provide a very faint and remote hope for a hybrid resurrection of this long extinct species of giant animal. It was thought that the last woolly mammouths perished 10,000 years ago, far later than other large prehistoric animals like the dinosaurs.