How cloning woolly mammoths could save the world

Before the end of the decade, ponderous woolly mammoths could be traipsing across the tundra once again.

Driven to extinction about 10,000 years ago, the 15-tonne animals could soon be kicking up the permafrost — if a company called Colossal has its way.

Under the aegis of George Church, considered by many to be the godfather of genetic engineering, Colossal is using state-of-the-art genomic sequencing and Crispr gene-editing technologies to splice together recovered genetic material from the long-lost mammoths and DNA from Asian elephants.

It is a process known as “de-extinction”, and researchers have been working on it for several years.

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