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I mean, they’re probably destroying a lot of Siberian ice to do this, so it might even have the same ecological impact as something like mining, I think
Just in general, mammoth fossils hold a lot of information that could tell us about the history of the local environment of those areas or new insights into the creatures’ lives as well. Also it’s not like more of this finite resource is still being produced or anything.
Yeah. Permafrost has a lot of carbon stored in it. The more digging humans do, the more is released into the atmosphere.
It also starts a chain reaction and causes more to melt.
Defrost the extinct zoonotic infections, can’t wait!
What keeps us from farming elephants? People already farm sturgeon for caviar.
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did you also read about the woolly mammoth because of the pyramids?
