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Originally Posted by justsomeguy That is a bit close minded don't you think? Lets see it from this perspective, from what I have read on Faqt.nl(A Dutch scientific news site) they will use Elephant dna to help fill in the gaps, sounds alot like Jurrasic park though and besides that: They were capable of cloning a sheep, sow why not an Mammoth. Science has progressed alot the passed decades and sow did genetic-research sow I personally think this might just actually have a slight chance of becoming reality!

The amount of cloned sheep able to live a normal life is very small.

Apart from that, I'm indeed referring to gene stuff. Of course they don't have 100% of the genes (it'd be a miracle if they had), so you're saying they fill in the gap with other genes.

However, my point actually was: these creatures didn't live for the past 4,000 years. Therefore, they didn't get any genetic evolution since then. In the past 4,000 years, tons of new viruses and bacteria proliferated. Due to evolution, mainly viruses who are better than their precedor. If they made these mammoths alive again, their immunity system wouldn't recognise all these new viruses, and therefore not be resistant against a lot of those. They'd get a lot of diseases this way. If they are still young at the moment they get it, chances are quite high they die.

So I guess it's not worth taking the risk. Isolating them completely isn't an option - there will always be traffic of bacteria. Making the immune is also impossible, as genetic engineering itself isn't that well developped yet. Plus, they can't make them immune to the millions of new bacteria developped since their extinction.