The mammoth became extinct, but promised to return

It seems that soon we will be able to see if you do not live dinosaurs, or at least mammoths - shaggy elephants adapt to climate cooling and found the first people of the Paleolithic hunters, about 10,000 years ago. According to one hypothesis, that ancient people hunting caused the extinction of these animals. The last mammoths lived on Wrangel Island just over 3000 years ago. But now modern people try to resurrect them.

Work on cloning a mammoth deal with at least two groups of researchers. In Yakutia week ago был open center "Molecular paleontology» based on the North-Eastern Federal University. Ammosov where they will learn how mammoth DNA, and other fossils. 90% of the finds of prehistoric animals found precisely in Yakutia. Now scientists have a good material from the remains of a mammoth that lived 43,000 years ago. They were able to extract from the permafrost bones, blood and a trunk. The study comes with experts from South Korea.

Meanwhile, scientists from Harvard University announced successful transplant genes mammoth Asian elephant using the method < a href = "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRISPR"> CRISPR . They took genes from the DNA of mammoths from Wrangel Island, with a particular focus on the genes of resistance to cold, and responsible for the shaggy, the size of the ears, subcutaneous fat and hemoglobin. Researchers say that now they have living cells elephants with mammoth DNA, however, do not hurry to publish research results in a scientific journal.

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