Over the past months, the revival of extinct animals has disappeared thousands of years ago suddenly became a more realistic novel from the field of science fiction. And the top of many promising projects for the revival of species are mammoths. Theconversation.com Information portal speakWhy.
Mammoth Len is one of the main characters in the scope of the conflict of the revival of extinct species. Although there are many less ancient animals that can focus on the efforts to revive, the mammoths often flash in scientific and popular media.
In popular culture, wool mammoths have at least a few centuries is a great source of curiosity. Thomas Jefferson hopes that living elephants can be found behind the border of American colonies in the late 18th century, while Mastodons's first excavations in the early 19th century. Not mentioning Mammoth of Manny – the main character of the animated film “The Age of Bang”, was released again in 2002.
At the same time, wool mammoths are also the actual symbol of the current climate crisis. The results of the recent wave of destruction of famous artworks, activists have drawn artificial ivory of the mammoth in the British Royal Museum of Colombia. And in 2023, Australian startup company, who participated in artificial meat, introduced a mammoth to be created by using the gene of mammoth and sheep.
For an animal that no one sees with their own eyes, the mammoths are certainly popular. But how do they manage to become a symbol of extinction? The fact is that everyone interacted with the remains of mammoths for centuries. If you dug a deep enough hole in the Northern Hemisphere of the Earth, then stumbling on the bones or ivory of the mammoth is not too difficult.
For example, in the first modern Europe, the fossils of the mammoths were confused with the unicorn bone and the giants before they were recognized as an elephant -like creature. And in the Arctic areas, especially in Siberia, the indigenous people are acquainted with the mammoths thanks to the eternal permanent ice. Sometimes, as a result of annual warmth from snow, earth and foot, the body appears on the surface.
Gradually, the fossil of the mammoth became part of human culture. But at the end of the 19th century, when the extinction of the abundant species began to dimly dim on the horizon, these animals had a new meaning in the context of understanding human evolution. The appearance of a Muslim hunter is directly related to the extinction of mammoths, which is exactly what created their current image in a popular culture.