Take a look at this (Source: Sky News - MAMMOTH PARK REALITY IN 20 YEARS)

A safari park featuring mammoths and woolly rhinoceros could open to visitors in the next 20 years.

Scientists from Japan and Russia believe they can take the concept behind film Jurassic Park and make it a reality.



A group of them will travel to Siberia this week to hunt out the carcasses of dead prehistoric animals that could be brought 'back to life'.

They will take DNA from the animals, perfectly preserved in the freezing conditions, and transplant them into the living relatives of the animals, such as elephants and rhinos. The animals will hopefully then give birth to creatures that roamed the planet 20,000 years ago.

'Absolutely possible'

Scientists aim to take the mammoths and other fearsome beasts back to Siberia where they will create a modern day prehistoric park.

Sounds like science fiction? Well, scientists are confident woolly mammoths will be roaming the Siberian planes within two decades.

"It probably sounds far-fetched, but it is absolutely possible to do this," said project co-ordinator Professor Akira Iritani.

Pleistocene Park

Mr Iritani announced earlier this year he had successfully transplanted a spinach gene into a pig to change the animal's fat into less fatty linoleic acid.

The key to the project's success is finding perfectly preserved carcasses in the Siberian tundra with undamaged DNA. The team is concentrating its search on a small area 300 miles south of the Arctic circle.

Siberian tiger, steppe lions, giant deer and ancient foxes are believed to be buried there. The Siberian sanctuary will eventually enclose an area twice the size of Britain.

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We're seriously toying with nature here... Bringing back extinct animals, mammoth in this case, why not revive some dinosaur later on while they're at it? What I suddenly thought of when I read this news article was about the ancient civilizations and their believe of the afterlife. Truely they were correct in a way, modern technology has the capability of bringing back the dead from the past.

In this article I am disturbed by this part:
Mr Iritani announced earlier this year he had successfully transplanted a spinach gene into a pig to change the animal's fat into less fatty linoleic acid.
Wasn't there news about transplanting jellyfish gene into a monkey few years back? What are these scientists doing? It's not natural.