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Recreating Extinct Species; The Wooly Mammoth What would it be like to bring back an extinct animal? Recreating one of these animals could be dangerous. The reason this is dangerous is because the animal might not be compatible with our ways of living. Also they might hurt our scientist that could be finding out more about them. We have recreated smaller animals like bugs or snakes but we should try and move to a harder thing to work with which could potentially be mammoths and saber tooth tigers. Scientist have actually thought about recreating bigger species. There are some benefits to this like bringing back a specific species could help our environment. An example of an extinct animal is a Mammuthus primigenius which stands for woolly mammoth.The wooly mammoth is an animal that is very similar to an elephant, it has tusks, a trunk, and are humongous. These creatures were herbivores and ate mainly flowers. The mammoth existed before the elephant and became extinct about 10,000 years ago. The one weird thing is that some of them survived on an isolated wrangled Island and were rediscovered but then became officially extinct. The year this happened was about 1605 BCE. …show more content…

Some of these benefits are that they are believed to be able to slow down the climate change and they could restore the tundra back to grassland. Professor Shapiro explains” The soil is said to be colder where these herbivores have exposed it to Arctic air.” There is a lot of carbon trapped in the Siberian permafrost and if mammoths slow down that melting,we can slow the release of that carbon, potentially slowing the rate of global

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