Zašto su praistorijski ljudi lovili ženke mamuta?
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A biotech company bankrolled by celebrities plans to resurrect the long-extinct woolly mammoth within four years., Start-up Colossal Biosciences - which has received financial backing from stars like Paris Hilton and Chris Hemsworth - bills itself as “the world’s first de-extinction company”., It is developing a way to revive “core” genes from extinct animals dating all the way back to the ice age, including the mammoth, the dodo and the Tasmanian tiger., The Texas-based business has raised more than $235 million with help from its celebrity backers, also reported to include PayPal co-founder and venture capitalist Peter Thiel., Colossal CEO Ben Lamm told the Daily Mail the de-extinction process is like a “reverse Jurassic Park”., Lamm also told The Independent: “We have set a date of late 2028 for our first mammoth and we are on track for that currently, which is great.”, The mammoth went extinct roughly 4,000 years ago, but shares 99.5% of its genes with the Asian elephant. , Gene editing and stem cells would be fused with an Asian elephant egg from a healthy female of the species., Lamm told the Daily Mail: “We’re not taking mammoth DNA and plugging in the holes. We’re trying to engineer the lost genes from mammoths into Asian elephants.”, According to Colossal’s website, the mammoth resurrection would be “more specifically a cold-resistant elephant with all of the core biological traits of the woolly mammoth., It says: “It will walk like a woolly mammoth, look like one, sound like one, but most importantly it will be able to inhabit the same ecosystem previously abandoned by the mammoth’s extinction., “It could help in reversing the rapid warming of the climate and more pressingly, protect the arctic’s permafrost….Bringing back the woolly mammoth means bringing back a better Earth.”, Lamm says reviving the mammoth will require a 22-month gestation period, and expects other extinct species will be back before the prehistoric giant., But he estimates the Tasmanian tiger, which went extinct in the early 1980s, would take “just weeks” to revive., And he believes the dodo bird, which died out in the 1600s, will take about a month to bring back., He said: “I do believe that it is highly likely we will have a species before 2028, and it will be one of the three that you’re looking at.”, *MANDATORY BYLINE - MUST CREDIT: Courtesy of Colossal/Mega. 03 Oct 2024 Pictured: Biotech company Colossal Biosciences plans to resurrect the long-extinct woolly mammoth by 2028. *MANDATORY BYLINE - MUST CREDIT: Courtesy of Colossal/Mega.,Image: 916189240, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: World Rights, Model Release: no , Credit line: Courtesy of Colossal/Mega / The Mega Agency / ProfimediaAnalizom genetskih podataka iz kostiju pronađenih na 11 arheoloških nalazišta u Poljskoj, Austriji, Češkoj, Nemačkoj i Rusiji, naučnici su otkrili da su praistorijski ljudi ciljano lovili ženke vunastih mamuta. Mamuti su bili jedna od najvažnijih lovina ljudi iz ledenog doba u Evroaziji i Severnoj Americi iz više razloga, prenosi agencija Reuters. Jedna životinja obezbeđivala je […]
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