Posted on 03/17/2015 10:56:20 AM PDT by C19fan
A group of Russian and South Korean researchers has begun their attempt to clone a woolly mammoth, starting by extracting DNA from a spectacularly well-preserved specimen discovered in the Siberian permafrot in 2013. The project is led by Hwang Woo-Suk, a Korean cloning scientist who was the focus of a scandal in 2006 involving fraudulent research on human stem cells. Hwang has had success with animals, however, reportedly creating the world's first cloned dog and several cloned coyotes.
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There was a reason that these creatures became extinct.
Most extinctions have nothing to do with the fitness of the organism. Extinction have been driven by catastrophic events. Many believe it was our ancestors who hunted the mammoth to extinction.
They tasted good?
“I read some stories about this. Someone claims a resurrected mammoth would need to be on antibiotics 24/7 to protect the animal from the all diseases that have developed or mutated since extinction.”
Usually the mother transfers antibodies to the fetus but it may be an issue if they are different species (proposal is to use an elephant surrogate). So you may be correct. It may have to go much further than antibiotics though
Scientists Take DNA Sample From Woolly Mammoth Leg for Cloning Project
Ahh ... come’on ... isn’t one Moosechelle enough?
They tasted like chicken.
Chickens are probably the closest living relatives to T-Rex.
“His momma was an elephant,
his dad a woolly bull.”
A living woolly mammoth at the zoo.. Who could top THAT to drive ticket sales?!
There was a reason that these creatures became extinct. They tasted good?
Same with the brontosuarus:
I would love to see that. I wanted to be a paleontologist when I was a kid. I hope these Ruskies and Koreans do not resort to frog DNA to fill in missing sequences.
Whats next, Dolly the woolly mammoth?
Just what we need- a herd of gigantic furry amphibious croaking elephants with misshapen heads. Sometimes I feel like I'm living in an episode of 'The Simpsons'.
Frogs with tusks might be a good deal. You'd have something you could hold on to while you skin them.
http://www.esd.ornl.gov/projects/qen/carbon11.html
And then what? The Woolly Mammoth was a herd animal so you would have to clone several beasts. At the same time, they would starve since their grazing area, the steppe tundra/mammoth steppe no longer exists.
The only people I can see profiting from a warehouse full of woolly mammoth legs are...KFC!
What could go wrong?
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