Scientists who have come close to resurrecting the dodo and mammoth have promised to bring more extinct animals back to the world. A company called Colossal Biosciences is already on its way to bringing back long-dead species like the Tasmanian tiger. But now, they’re also mining ancient DNA to revive entirely new species never found in the fossil record.
The company’s Chief Science Officer, Professor Beth Shapiro, says that nature’s history, by its nature, is completely different from anything that exists today, so it is ripe for new discoveries. They are like explorers, but instead of going to distant places on the planet, they are going into the distant past. We don’t really know what we’re going to find.
Experts recently found fragments of DNA dating back 2 million years in Greenland, and it is possible that samples may be preserved from even older times. The DNA they discovered is from a horse-like animal that lived 700,000 years ago. Jurassic Park-style scientists believe they can pick out the best traits from the DNA of a species like a horse or donkey that lived 700,000 years ago.
Scientists are already working on bringing mammoths and dodos back to life. (Symbolic photo: Shutterstock)
Scientists may be able to create new superior breeds better equipped for a world devastated by climate change. Scientists have discovered a new species that lived in North America about 700,000 years ago. It is not a horse, it is not a donkey, but it belongs to those lineages. This could open the way for today’s animals and humans to adapt to Earth’s increasing climate changes.
He said that being able to reach past times where the climate was warmer than today could give us a better idea of how communities organized or how species were able to thrive. Colossal’s experts hope that animals that became extinct millions of years ago will be seen roaming in the wild again by 2034.
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FIRST PUBLISHED: April 15, 2024, 15:38 IST