Hendrik Poinar

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.

Dutch Scientist

Lydia Millet

More than two million years ago, mammoths and Asian elephants took different evolutionary paths - and around the same time, according to DNA research, so did their lumbering relatives in Africa.

American Novelist

Ben Nicholson

I have a book of buildings from 25,000 BC. These are huts built out of mammoth bones. These buildings were beautifully made, from the bones of the body into shelter.

British Artist

Urjit Patel

This is a once in a lifetime event. It is very rare to remove 86% of the currency in circulation in one go. The logistics of such an operation are mammoth.

Indian Economist

John James Audubon

The fact is I am growing old too fast, alas! I feel it, and yet work I will, and may God grant me life to see the last plate of my mammoth work finished.

American Scientist

Francesca Hayward

Manon' still feels like it didn't really happen, because it is such a mammoth ballet and I can't believe I did that.

English Dancer

Della Reese

The exercise I do now is a mammoth change for me because I never did any exercise ever.

American Musician

Mike Nichols

Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth.

German Director

David Nutter

The Red Wedding was, for myself as a director doing this, such a mammoth experience.

W. L. George

English Writer

Use 'mammoth' to evoke a sense of ancient history, especially when related to the Ice Age.

Prehistoric Reference

'Mammoth' represents not just a large animal, but emphasizes that it's no longer living.

Extinct Creatures

The word 'mammoth' can symbolize anything that's old, massive, and extinct in cultural contexts.

Cultural Symbol

Use 'mammoth' to stress extreme size or volume in contemporary contexts.

Exaggerated Size

A 'mammoth' task is not just large; it may seem overwhelming or daunting.

Daunting Tasks

'Mammoth' is often used figuratively to describe things that are not physically large, but require a lot of work.

Figurative Usage

 the important questions of course if you do kind of plate in a project like this a de-extinction project of bringing an animal like that back what are you gonna do with it that's actually one of the more difficult questions because you know why do we want to clone the mammoths and can you clone it because as we say cloning one animal at bringing

Should We Bring Extinct...

 and the teeth that actually survived the fossilization process, the DNA which was once intact, tightly wrapped around histone proteins, is now under attack by the bacteria that lived symbiotically with the mammoth for years during its lifetime. So those bacteria, along with the environmental bacteria,

Hendrik Poinar: Bring...

 are taken to a release site it is incredibly important that they have put on enough weight before they head out into the wild and the teamwork around the clock to ensure they are in tip-top condition and of course water bowls have undergone a mammoth decline across the uk what are

Saving Water Voles From...

 In many instances, their images follow the contours of the cave to create depth and shade. The most common depictions are of geometric shapes, followed by large mammals, like bison, horses, mammoths, deer, and boars. Human figures appear rarely, as well as occasional hand prints.

Explore cave paintings...

 discover genes that gave mammoths red fur, and even pinpoint where ancient giant sharks gave birth. There are about 900 natural history museums in the world, and every year they make new discoveries and insights into the Earth's past, present and future.

The hidden worlds within...

 it starts around a fire, with a good story. Our clan leader is telling us about how he hunted the woolly mammoth on the tundra that day. We hear his words and translate them into our own internal truths. The same thing happens

The birth of virtual...

 For instance, there's been research in to cloning woolly mammoths from frozen remains. But even if it's not possible, we can still restore many of the ecosystems the world has lost. How? By making use of abandoned farms.

From the top of the food...

 says that the world's largest biome used to be what was called the mammoth steppe it was Arctic grasslands kept in order by dense herds of mega herbivores including mammoths when humans killed

Reversing animal...

 They built on a monumental scale from palaces to ziggurats, mammoth temples served as ritual locations to commune with the gods. They also developed advanced mathematics,

Ancient Mesopotamia 101...

 hours to figure out where she was they said the baby mammoth was no report