Ice, Ice Baby: Perfectly Frozen Mammoth

Sky News ^ | Oct. 5, 2009

[hecht]

clone it!

[csvset]

GGG ping.

[Raymann]

Agreed, I want to hunt mammoth one day!

[San Jacinto]

You gonna do it with a spear and some rocks?

[guitarplayer1953]

Does the sudden freezing like this support that there was a pole shift that moved Siberia from a warmer climate to the extreme north causing instant freezing of animals?

[A CA Guy]

What we all would look like under Obama care.

[JRandomFreeper]

a) Who knew reindeer were used to dig up animal remains, is that something like pigs rooting for truffles?

b) If was perfectly frozen, does that mean steaks this weekend?

/johnny

[umgud]

Sounds like a mammoth undertaking.

[Freedom4US]

I’m too lazy to cite, but I do remember reading in geology class that there are documented Siberian Mammoths that were found frozen, they were chewing buttercup flowers based on what was in the stomach. Interestingly (supposedly) the cells all the way through are in good condition, implying they were “flash frozen” more or less, this isn’t just a winter storm kind of thing, so the story goes. Some of the meat was eaten and found serviceable but most was fed to the sled teams.

[Brilliant]

Nah... Only Republicans would look like that.

[School of Rational Thought]

Clone baby clone!

[JRandomFreeper]

You gonna do it with a spear and some rocks?

Just turn me loose with one with my opposable thumbs and innate intelligence, and I'll take it from there. I was thinking about throwing small chunks of lead at one from a distance (with an appropriate throwing device).

We whipped their large, fuzzy asses once, we can do it again.

/johnny

[A CA Guy]

Now that you mention it, I see the resemblance to McCain. They should have left it buried.

[MaxMax]

It probably tastes like jerky at this point. Well aged jerky.

[guitarplayer1953]

From what I have read the woolly mammoths coats were to keep them cool not to keep them warm and that they are from the sub tropics.

[JoeProBono]

[webschooner]

Did they try the paddles on it to jump start it?

[Pontiac]

"We had no idea from preserved skeletons and preserved carcasses that young mammoths had a discrete structure on the back of the head of brown fat cells," Mr Fisher told reporters.

The same kind of fat that polar bears have to keep them warm.

Could be since this is a one month old baby that adults would have this fat under the skin of the entire body. It definitely suggest that the mammoth was adapted to arctic climates. .

[LadyPilgrim]

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