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Scientists Take DNA Sample From Woolly Mammoth Leg for Cloning Project
NBC News ^ | March 16, 2015 | Devin Coldewey

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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TOPICS: Pets/Animals; Science
KEYWORDS: cloning; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; mammoth; mammoths; mastodon; mastodons
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To: C19fan

I’m thinking the other way...What horrors can he bring down upon us??? Aids began with a monkey.


21 posted on 03/17/2015 11:23:34 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Parmy

Yeah, they went from being very warm, to very cold in a meter of hours.

Try to figure that one out from current science.


22 posted on 03/17/2015 11:24:01 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (When you are inclined to to buy storage boxes, but contractor bags instead.)
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To: All

What good is a wooly mammoth leg? Why not clone the whole thing? Nobody wants to see a leg at the zoo! TEE HEE!


23 posted on 03/17/2015 11:24:49 AM PDT by Klemper
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To: tacticalogic

A generation of little boys would have to deal with frogs that can fight back. That would be something to see.


24 posted on 03/17/2015 11:25:28 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (When you are inclined to to buy storage boxes, but contractor bags instead.)
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To: Snickering Hound

I saw the solution on TV. You have the wholly mammoth a member of a pack of modern elephants! I am sure the zoo keepers can grow the tundra grasses.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistoric_Park


25 posted on 03/17/2015 11:27:06 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: Vermont Lt

Never been in the Texas panhandle, have you?


26 posted on 03/17/2015 11:28:15 AM PDT by sparklite2
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To: C19fan
...led by Hwang Woo-Suk...

Sorry. I had to type that and then LOL

FMCDH(BITS)

27 posted on 03/17/2015 11:31:37 AM PDT by nothingnew (Hemmer and MacCullum are the worst on FNC)
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To: C19fan
The Far Side Wooly mammoth photo: mammoth mammoth.png
28 posted on 03/17/2015 11:40:22 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: kevkrom

Pleistocene re-wilding.


29 posted on 03/17/2015 11:41:00 AM PDT by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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To: tumblindice

lol


30 posted on 03/17/2015 11:41:23 AM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Is that the pre-historic version of eating dog? Dino as a sauropod would be a cousin of the Brontosaurus slaughtered for the rack of ribs.


31 posted on 03/17/2015 11:42:30 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: Jeff Chandler
This may take the Paleo diet to a whole new level.
32 posted on 03/17/2015 11:44:04 AM PDT by Idaho_Cowboy (Ride for the Brand. Joshua 24:15)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

There’s another Far Side I can’t find.
An old caveman picks up a mammoth tail, apparently tossed away.
He scolds the `youngsters’ skinning-out the beast:
“When I was your age, we used EVERY part of the kill!”


33 posted on 03/17/2015 11:51:14 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: sparklite2

Yea, I have. And I appreciate what you are saying. But has a long horn ever dropped dead and be frozen solid and buried in ice within a couple of days?

We are talking major “climate” change, the likes of which only come from moving the earths crust a few thousand miles in a few hours.


34 posted on 03/17/2015 11:57:09 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (When you are inclined to to buy storage boxes, but contractor bags instead.)
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To: tumblindice

There was one where a cat was about to enter a shower and there was a huge tongue on the wall instead of a shower head. LOL


35 posted on 03/17/2015 11:59:29 AM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

Curious cat is poking around the laundry room, dog is hiding behind a curtain.
Crudely lettered sign points to dryer with open door: `Fud Inside’.
Caption for dog: “(Please. Oh please.)’

And Larson wasn’t/isn’t much of dog lover, more of a snake/reptile charmer.


36 posted on 03/17/2015 12:05:56 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: C19fan
In 1970, the SMERSH facility believed to house Hitler's remains was scheduled to be handed over to the East German government. Fearing that a known Hitler burial site might become a Neo-Nazi shrine, KGB director Yuri Andropov authorised an operation to destroy the remains that had been buried in Magdeburg on 21 February 1946. A Soviet KGB team was given detailed burial charts. On 4 April 1970 they secretly exhumed five wooden boxes containing the remains of "10 or 11 bodies ... in an advanced state of decay". The remains were thoroughly burned and crushed, after which the ashes were thrown into the Biederitz river, a tributary of the nearby Elbe.

According to Ian Kershaw the corpses of Braun and Hitler were thoroughly burned when the Red Army found them, and only a lower jaw with dental work could be identified as Hitler's remains.

I hope no one will be able to find the remains of Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, and other totalitarian socialist heroes of the far left. When today's socialist leaders die (no names, but even the West has one), this is one more reason to make sure their remains are obliterated.

37 posted on 03/17/2015 12:15:28 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: C19fan

[ 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. ]

That is a bunch of hooey, The animal would adapt.

Otherwise we would die when going on vacation overseas.


38 posted on 03/17/2015 12:23:36 PM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: Snickering Hound

[ At the same time, they would starve since their grazing area, the steppe tundra/mammoth steppe no longer exists. ]

Just like the cows that starve to death in unnatural feedlots....


39 posted on 03/17/2015 12:25:15 PM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: C19fan

Bring back the sabre toothed tiger and t-rex.


40 posted on 03/17/2015 12:36:42 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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