Russian Scientists Say They'll Clone a Mammoth Within 5 Years 302
Many scientists (mainly Japanese and Russian) have dreamed of cloning a mammoth over the years. When the mammoth genome was partially reconstructed in 2008, that dream seemed a bit closer. Besides the millions of dollars needed for such a project, the biggest hurdle was the lack of a good sample of mammoth DNA. That hurdle has now been cleared, thanks to the discovery of well-preserved bone marrow in a mammoth thigh bone. Russian scientist Semyon Grigoriev, acting director of the Sakha Republic's mammoth museum, and colleagues from Japan's Kinki University say that within 5 years they'll likely have a clone. From the article: "What's been missing is woolly mammoth nuclei with undamaged genes. Scientists have been on a Holy Grail-type search for such pristine nuclei since the late 1990s. Now it sounds like the missing genes may have been found."
Ice Age Park (Score:5, Funny)
Just like Jurassic Park, but colder
I wonder (Score:5, Funny)
Putin... (Score:5, Funny)
Will have shot it five minutes later...
Welcome to... (Score:4, Funny)
Pliocene park.
All this in the mist of global warming. (Score:5, Funny)
Kinki University? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:All this in the mist of global warming. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Ice Age Park (Score:1, Funny)
I dunno (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Ice Age Park (Score:4, Funny)
the roseanne ref is almost as old as the mammoth :)
Re:All this in the mist of global warming. (Score:5, Funny)
I thought they were done in by humans hunting with clovis point spears. They should be fine now, nobody uses spears anymore.
Re:Ice Age Park (Score:5, Funny)
Mix with current age elephants and unix-gurues - should make for diversity, while keeping the hairyness.
Re:All this in the mist of global warming. (Score:5, Funny)
Lets give birth to an Ice Age animal during earths period of global high heat.
Today isn't particularly hot, even by the standards of the time since the last ice age, and much of Russia is often extremely cold.
In any case, the next ice age should be along at some point in the next few thousand years, so we might as well get prepared. A mammoth will be much more useful as transport than a Prius when the planet is covered with mile-thick ice and the temperature is permanently below zero.
Fucking Starks and their "winter is coming" doom and gloom bullshit.
mammoths are dumb (Score:5, Funny)
Mammoths are dumb, If they are going to pick a species to bring back from extinction, they should pick something cooler, like a mermaid or a unicorn or something.
Re:All this in the mist of global warming. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Preparing for the coming Ice Age (Score:3, Funny)
Well, since anthropomorphic global warming is causing the melting of Greenlands ice sheet, which will then cause an Ice Age in Europe, this seems apropos.
Don't anthropomorphize global warming. It hates it when you do that.
I for one wlecome our (Score:4, Funny)
new ... stomp....
Re:Ice Age Park (Score:5, Funny)
I've noticed, the more proficient I get at Linux, my beard grows thicker and greyer ... I'm no longer thinking it is coincidence.
Re:Ice Age Park (Score:5, Funny)
Then we'll kill it for dinner. Back to Extinct for you!
re: beard (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah.... and the longer I do systems administration on Microsoft Windows based networks, the more of my hair turns gray. No beard though....
Re: beard (Score:5, Funny)
I would think that would make one bald.
Re:All this in the mist of global warming. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Ice Age Park (Score:5, Funny)
Re:All this in the mist of global warming. (Score:4, Funny)
Until Apple patents their own "iSpear". Unfortunately for them, they won't be very effective as the spear tips will have rounded edges.
You just have to hold them correctly.
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