Is it Worth It?

I was browsing on BBC News Earlier today and came across an article about cloning Mammoths. Back in august a Mammoth bone was found and this contained usable bone marrow. Scientist from Russia and Japan intend to take an experiment to clone this animal. (“Jurassic Park Style”)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16068581

They predict within the next 5 years they will have a cloned mammoth. Extracting a nucleus from an animal’s bone marrow and insert it into an African elephant egg will do this. This technique was used in 2009 to clone an extinct Pyrenean ibex, this cloning did bring this animal back to life for a few minuets but died a few minuets later.

Thinking about the amount of money that will go into to develop this mammoth clone will be crazy. Yeah it would be great to bring back an extinct species but is it worth the hassle, most scientist will be apart of this to try to prove to world it is possible, but I feel it is pointless. There’s a 50/50 outcome in this situation, it working and bringing back an extinct animal or it dying and wasting millions of money. In my opinion they should not go through with this.