Re: "Texas company raises $200 million to make Jurassic Park happen"

On 1/18/2025 9:48 AM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

On 1/18/25 09:04, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

On 1/17/2025 8:17 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

On 1/17/25 13:45, Lynn McGuire wrote:

"Texas company raises $200 million to make Jurassic Park happen"
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https://www.chron.com/life/wildlife/article/colossal-biosciences- mammoth-20038093.php
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“Colossal Biosciences wants to resurrect the woolly mammoth, the dodo bird, and the Tasmanian tiger.”
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You know, the woolly mammoth was killed off by humans for a good reason.   Walking through people's forts and homes is a bad thing.
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     Certainly from the POV of the locals who  share time with the
Wooly Mammoth it was a reason to get rid of the annoying pests.
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I suspect that the "walking feast!" POV had more to do with it.  (One of our ancestors' hunting methods was 'stampede an entire herd off a cliff' when one mammoth would provide more meat than they could eat before it spoiled.)
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      Mammoth Jerky?
      But the stampede over a cliff seem more like extermination than
hunting. But who knows what the people of the time were thinking and it
must have been a nuisance to have the walking feast walk right thru
the camp. Forts is surely speculation..
 

Well, there is the little matter of _why_ mammoths would walk thru a human encampment with all the fires and sharp pointing things....
...and why humans would camp where mammoths _could_ walk thru them.
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