Geosciences in the news - Karl Flessa
March 6, 2024
Scientists take a step closer to resurrecting the woolly mammoth
Karl Flessa on the ethical concerns of ressurecting a woolly mammoth - "What are you going to get out of this?" asked Karl Flessa, a professor of geosciences at the University of Arizona. "First of all, I think you're going to get a bit of a freak show in a zoo somewhere. And then if you're going to release a herd into the Arctic tundra, is that herd going to go marching off to its second extinction in the face of global warming?"