CIA wants to bring back the long gone Woolly Mammoth
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Imagine Wooly mammoth roaming the Earth once again like they had done between 5 million and 4,000 years ago.
It was at this point these giant animals went disappeared for good, leaving behind their remains.
Perhaps they will come back given the advances in the genome technology that made possible cloning of the animals.
This is especially so after scientists were able to decode the mammoth genome using recovered DNA from mummified bones.
Now America's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is offering support to a Dallas-based biotechnology firm Colossal Biosciences to help bring back the giant elephant from extinction, according to a report in Newsweek.
These hairy elephants went extinct after the Ice Age glaciers retreated at about the time Egypt's Great Pyramids were raised.
Researcher are looking forward to resurrect wooly mammoths and Tasmanian tigers using CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) gene editing.
Scientists believe that resurrecting mammoth will help slow melting of Arctic permafrost alongside preserving existing elephants from extinction.
Colossal co-founder Ben Lamm was quoted as saying by The Intercept that Biotechnology and the broader bioeconomy are critical for humanity to further develop.