• Question: would you concider trying to bring dodos or mamoths back to life?? how come sloths survived the ice age but dodos and mamoths and that rat squirel thing didnt??

    Asked by peowwclayton to Rachael, Poonam, Patience, Hywel on 14 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Dr Hywel Jones

      Dr Hywel Jones answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      Well this area is not really my field of expertise. Dodos died out basically because we killed and ate them all whereas I guess sloths don’t taste so good. Its not clear why mammoths died out but it was probably a combination of hunting by humans and other predators and climate change.

      It would be cool to see Dodos and Mammoths roaming around again but that is a job for the people in the Genes Zone i guess.

    • Photo: Poonam Kaushik

      Poonam Kaushik answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      Well is it necessary to bring them back? we can bring them back coz we do have their stem cells. Sloths survived the ice age coz they migrated to South!

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