I laughed when Steven Spielberg said that cloning extinct animals was inevitable. But I’m not laughing anymore, at least about mammoths. This is going to happen. It’s just a matter of working out the details. Hendrik Poinar Read Quote
We know African and Asian elephants can interbreed, and they’re separated by 5 million to 6 million years. Hendrik Poinar Read Quote
There’s no environment I can think of that would have remained constant enough to preserve dinosaur DNA. Hendrik Poinar Read Quote
Typically, there’s a drive in science to do something just to say you’ve done it. Hendrik Poinar Read Quote
There is no good scientific reason to bring back an extinct species. Why would one bring them back? To put them in a theme park? Hendrik Poinar Read Quote
If we brought the mammoth back to Siberia, maybe that would be good for the ecosystems that are changing because of climate change. Hendrik Poinar Read Quote
Teeth actually turn out to be one of a couple of good sources of ancient DNA. The teeth, actually the enamel, is quite good at preserving the DNA, so it is a bit of time capsule so to speak. Hendrik Poinar Read Quote
Every outbreak across the globe today stems from a descendant of the medieval plague. Hendrik Poinar Read Quote
Scientists have always thought that because mammoths roamed such a huge territory – from Western Europe to Central North America – that North American woolly mammoths were a sideshow of no particular significance to the evolution of the species. Hendrik Poinar Read Quote
