I'm not a paleontologist or anything, but it seems rather cruel to bring back an ice age creature, well adapted to frigid temperatures, into a world we've basically been heating since their disappearence. Especially considering climate change is thought to be one of the reasons for their extinction in the first place.
I bumped into Ben Lamm by coincidence at a business dinner (he was having dinner at the next table at a really small place and instead him and his party just joined us as a big group) and he was talking about Collossal. The weird thing is he wants bring back multiple extinct species and to recoup the investment by essentially running zoo exhibits. So you would pay to go see the wooly mammoth or whatever. I love that this exists and would love them to succeed but the plan seems pretty out there.
>“Our goal is in the successful de-extinction of inter-breedable herds of mammoths that we can leverage in the rewilding of the Arctic. And then we want to leverage those technologies for what we’re calling thoughtful, disruptive conservation,” Lamm told CNBC.<p>What ecological benefits would de-extincting mammoths and re-introducing them to the Arctic bring? Genuinely curious.