Resurrecting the dead from the graves sounds more like a plot of a sci-fi or a fantasy Hollywood flick. But as science has been making tremendous progress in every field, it seems as if what looked like a movie plot might soon come true.

Scientists are claiming to be very close to raising extinct species from the dead. Like we said, no more a science fiction, researchers are working on extinction-reversing technology to bring back extinct species to life.

They are actually trying to resurrect an extinct species of an 11-foot tall woolly mammoth that are believed to have died off 10,000 years ago.

HOW WILL THEY DO IT?

1.Currently, the researchers are trying to extract “high quality” DNA genome from preserved specimens

2.The DNA samples will be injected to a living elephant as a surrogate where the offspring would either be an elephant with lots of body hair or any other traits of woolly mammoths that might fuse with the living elephants

3.Although the process won’t exactly raise a perfect photocopy, it will be able to raise significantly resembling species that went extinct thousands of years ago

COULD THIS BE SUCCESSFUL?

1.The success of this experiment highly depends on whether the scientists can extract enough high-quality DNA from specimens mainly found preserved in arctic ice

2.A successful extraction could pave the way for a miraculous resurrection of the fabled beasts — and potentially other extinct creatures

3.But scientists are also likely to focus their attention on animals currently at risk of being wiped out as a way of ensuring their survival

Though extraction of DNA is a tough task in itself, according to a report by The TeCake, Dr. Douglas McCauley, an ecology, evolution and marine biology professor at the University of California has asserted that boffins (researchers) are closer than ever to resurrect an extinct species presumably the woolly mammoth, dead for over 10,000 years, due to low birth rates and shrinking habitats among other problems.

“We are closer now than ever before to being able to raise species from the dead. But it is important to understand what we are and are not able to do with de-extinction technology,” he said.

He added that researchers could initiate the process of resurrecting this huge species as early as this year pointing out towards the cloning process where the DNA sequence will be used.

DNA samples get damaged over a long period of time, say a few thousand years. Also, extracting DNA from ancient species makes it difficult for researchers to find a suitable surrogate for possible reproduction.

The professor states that it can be more yielding if researchers stress on using this technology to prevent endangered species from extinction or those species which recently went extinct such as rhinos.