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I still wonder if recreating mammoths will ever be possible, and of course if you could, would they survive in the modern climate in the wild.
by coldcode 5y ago
I still wonder if recreating mammoths will ever be possible, and of course if you could, would they survive in the modern climate in the wild.
- klyrs 5y agoI suspect a wooly coat is particularly maladaptive in this era of fires sweeping the global north...
- lmilcin 5y agoSure they would. The area that would support them would just be shifting. So what a mammoth needs? -- food -- no predators that kills them all (remember, it's humans that killed it) -- not too hot climate. Does it require actual ice? Of course not. It is unlikely it lived on ice, it still needed to eat something and that means most likely tundra of some kind. There is still a lot of tundra today available.