Complete 9,000-year-old frozen bison mummy found in Siberia

EurekAlert! ^ | November 06, 2014 | Anthony Friscia

[W.]

Chilly!

[Georgia Girl 2]

Hey I know lets clone it. :-)

[Inyo-Mono]

Examples of non-charismatics would be poisonous snakes, maggots, rats, hyenas, dingos, bats, cockroaches, pigeons, jellyfish, and lice.

LOL! Sounds like the Democratic Part.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Importantly, if they can recover enough of its DNA, they might be able to do a multi-generational reconstruction of the species.

In the first generation, its DNA is used to create a cross with a modern bison, hopefully producing viable hybrid offspring. Then in the second and subsequent generations, more of the ancient DNA is integrated into the offspring, until eventually its DNA is identical to the ancient species.

This technique was created with the idea of eventually bringing back the wooly mammoth. But bison would be a great first step.

[SunkenCiv]

Even just a comparion of 9K old and current bison would be interesting.

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he He He.

Back in 2008, some folks referred to obama as ‘Charismatic”. I NEVER could see it. He ALWAYS made me sick to see or hear him.

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Evan as a Charismatic Evangelical, i find that picture quite scary! LOL!

[uglybiker]

Did someone say mummy?!

[Vendome]

[Vendome]

Kewel!

A meat puzzle...

[Mrs. Don-o]

THank you for LOL'ing that. I didn't mean to insult anybody.... but did you notice the hair??

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The hair is held in place supernaturally. Didn’t you know that? :-)

[WellyP]

Will Putin be shown riding it or trying to bread with it?

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HAHAHAHAHA

[The Antiyuppie]

It really seems like it would be fairly easy (as these things go) to reconstruct this species assuming that good DNA can be extracted. It might be better (or worse,or just different) than what we have now.

One thing that I’ve wondered about, is that a reconstructed species might be extremely susceptible to modern diseases, because disease and the present biosphere of creatures have both evolved considerably over time in the “war” between them. If this is so, any reconstructed species like a bison or wooly mammoth or even a dinosaur might never make it out of a lab.

[Bigg Red]

Someone coined the phrase “charismatic megafauna” back around the 1990s, IIRC. It just refers to large animals that humans like, and will therefore be more inclined to help in their rescue or conservation, e.g., elephants, whales.

I don’t think it has any actual scientific meaning, so it is very strange that it is used here.

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Funny thing is that this particular “Charismatic megafauna” is from an epoch when humans would love them a lot...for DINNER! hahaha

[Hugin]

Some still do...

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Mmmmmmmmmmmm...That looks GOOD!

(I am a contented carnivore, myself!)

[Hugin]

Tommy’s Joynt, my favorite San Francisco restaurant. I don’t think they’ve changed the signs (or prices) since the 1980s.