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we're merging pieces of the DNA from
ancient mammoth specimens with modern
living cells and then if possible we'll
wake those into elephant mammoths
hybrids
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the carbon in the permafrost
if it released it would be more than the
sum of all the carbon in the atmosphere
right now
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it's a very natural thing for Elephants
all over the world to change their
environment favoring the grasses over
the trees
there's no reason to suspect that
mammoths would each have a similar
really important road
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exposing that upper surface to the very
cold winter air is critical but if the
animals are there they dig through that
stove to get so whatever green grass is
underneath an opportunity to keep low
warming from possibly spiraling out of
control
and anything we can do to push that in
the right direction that's really great
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science fiction isn't gonna save us
changing the way we act the way we
behave the way we interact with the land
around us that's what we need to do
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right here horses moves mascots bison
yaks just like we've now given Bisons a
whole new lease on life making an
elephant cold resistant who would
probably save the species this
technology the ability to take genes
from the past put them into species that
are alive today has tremendous potential
as a new tool for conservation
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