Why are we so obsessed with bringing back the wooly mammoth?

In just the last several months, de-extinction—bringing back extinct species by recreating them or organisms that resemble them—has moved closer from science fiction to science fact. Colossal Biosciences—an American for-profit de-extinction startup headed by geneticists George Church and Beth Shapiro—announced two major achievements almost back-to-back.

source https://phys.org/news/2025-07-obsessed-wooly-mammoth.html