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Post by CrossfireBusiness on May 3, 2011 20:46:39 GMT -5
CNN QUOTE Instead of Jurassic Park, try Pleistocene Park. A team of scientists from Japan, Russia and the United States hopes to clone a mammoth, a symbol of Earth’s ice age that ended 12,000 years ago, according to a report in Japan’s Yomiuri Shimbun. The researchers say they hope to produce a baby mammoth within six years. heres the rest of the link!!!! news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/17/scientists-trying-to-clone-resurrect-extinct-mammoth/ |
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Post by di66er on May 3, 2011 23:19:14 GMT -5
Whoot!
Can't wait!
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Post by Ryan on May 4, 2011 15:09:53 GMT -5
Wow, that would be amazing to see a mammoth in person. I dont know though, something about "playing God" sort of scares me. I wonder if they will be successful.
Also, its been a while since Ive done genetics or punnett squares, but wouldnt the surrogate african elephant mother mean the outcome would only be half mammoth?
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Post by hydrogeologist on May 4, 2011 19:34:13 GMT -5
My old boss told me that at a 1900 USGS convention they served wooly mammoth steaks. They found a perfectly preserved mammoth in frozen tundra soils and the meat was still edible.
I'm all for exotic meats, but at 10,000 years old, I think I'd pass.
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Post by stairman on May 4, 2011 20:15:00 GMT -5
Aged mammoth steaks!That musta been a weird expirience.I wonder if they were tasty.
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Post by Ryan on May 5, 2011 0:20:37 GMT -5
Dang...Talk about freezer burn....or Tundra burn...That cannot have been good eatin... I throw away popsickles after a year and theyre just flavored ice... :-P
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Post by CrossfireBusiness on May 6, 2011 9:11:21 GMT -5
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Post by di66er on May 6, 2011 21:41:22 GMT -5
I found a mammoth tooth, there have been over 200 tusks reported found here in Minnesota. Attachments:
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Post by cassews on Feb 16, 2022 20:06:07 GMT -5
They have been trying to clone the wooly for a while; it was on Expedition Unknown with Josh Gates.
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