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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: tumblindice
There’s another Far Side I can’t find.My favorite was the Thagomizer, named after the late Thag Simmons.
41 posted on 03/17/2015 12:53:58 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
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To: C19fan
Chickens are probably the closest living relatives to T-Rex.

One of many reasons that it is hilarious when chickens are advertised as being fed a "vegetarian diet." Fools liberal idiots, but anyone who has ever seen a chicken on the jungle floor knows that they really are little T-Rexes. I doubt they are particularly happy, or healthy, having to subsist solely on plants.
42 posted on 03/17/2015 12:55:44 PM PDT by jjsheridan5 (The next Ronald Reagan will not be a Republican, but rather a former Republican)
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To: C19fan

You are right. The chicken is the closet living relative to the T-rex. Imagine how our view of the chicken would change if we genetically changed them to have teeth, which is currently in process.

BTW - There are also many scientists who do not believe that there were near enough humans to hunt the mammoth to extinction. I tend to believe this as well. There are many who think that an impact into the North American ice sheet caused the megafauna extinction event.


43 posted on 03/17/2015 12:57:04 PM PDT by ohioman
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To: C19fan

“Hwang has had success with animals, however, reportedly creating the world’s first cloned dog and several cloned coyotes.”

Because the world doesn’t already have enough coyotes...


44 posted on 03/17/2015 1:17:14 PM PDT by Texan Tory
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To: C19fan
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.

Unless they were able to do some half mammoth, half elephant hybrid. That might do the trick.

45 posted on 03/17/2015 1:38:07 PM PDT by Slyfox (I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever)
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To: Sacajaweau
Aids began with a monkey.

A monkey and a simian immuno-virus, to be more accurate.

46 posted on 03/17/2015 1:50:43 PM PDT by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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To: jjsheridan5
One of many reasons that it is hilarious when chickens are advertised as being fed a "vegetarian diet." Fools liberal idiots, but anyone who has ever seen a chicken on the jungle floor knows that they really are little T-Rexes. I doubt they are particularly happy, or healthy, having to subsist solely on plants.

We keep poultry and occasionally throw a duck carcass out with the chickens. Chickens are like piranha, and there is something intensely predatory about them. Silly, but predatory. A handful of chickens will have a duck carcass picked to the bones within minutes.

47 posted on 03/17/2015 2:02:09 PM PDT by FateAmenableToChange
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The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes: Flood, Fire, and Famine in the History of Civilization
The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes:
Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization

by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith


48 posted on 03/17/2015 2:02:46 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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To: 75thOVI; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; Avoiding_Sulla; ...
Mammoth told me there'd be days like this.

49 posted on 03/17/2015 2:03:44 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ...
Great, now I've got the chorus of an ELO song going through my head.

50 posted on 03/17/2015 2:03:48 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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To: Parmy

Fred Flintstone and family at the drive through.


51 posted on 03/17/2015 3:21:47 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Parmy

Hey, I should go dig up my dead cat from 30-years ago. Must be some DNA left to work with.


52 posted on 03/17/2015 3:23:43 PM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: C19fan

I am surprised that as of yet, as far as I know, they haven’t tried to harvest eggs from humongous ovaries!

Some might be viable...


53 posted on 03/17/2015 3:55:52 PM PDT by djf (OK. Well, now, lemme try to make this clear: If you LIKE your lasagna, you can KEEP your lasagna!)
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To: jjsheridan5
One of many reasons that it is hilarious when chickens are advertised as being fed a "vegetarian diet." Fools liberal idiots, but anyone who has ever seen a chicken on the jungle floor knows that they really are little T-Rexes. I doubt they are particularly happy, or healthy, having to subsist solely on plants.

Yes, chickens are omnivores. One reason early farmers kept chickens, besides the eggs, was the chickens would eat the bugs among the crops.

54 posted on 03/17/2015 4:11:54 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: C19fan

We’re going to need bigger guns.


55 posted on 03/17/2015 4:15:29 PM PDT by Gator113 (Cruz, Lee, and Sessions speak for me.... most anyone else is just noise.)
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To: C19fan

How many years ago did I start predicting the cloning of mammoths? 10?

My question bad always been, why mammoths? Why not big bunny rabbits? Or giant sloths? Or Neanderthals with that cute little slot in their jaw?


56 posted on 03/17/2015 4:34:05 PM PDT by wildbill (If you check behind the shower curtain for a murderer, and find one... what's your plan?)
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To: C19fan

I presume they’re going to use an elephant as the surrogate mother. A lot of immune factors come from the mother’s milk so let the mama elephant nurse it. No reason to think the immune system in general wouldn’t handle modern bacteria and virii.


57 posted on 03/17/2015 4:40:57 PM PDT by TigersEye (STONE COLD ZOMBIE SCOURGE)
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To: C19fan

Just what we always needed./s


58 posted on 03/17/2015 5:46:50 PM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: Vermont Lt

Not a long horn but some Wisconsin cows. Cold snap froze them standing. It was quite a few years ago.


59 posted on 03/17/2015 6:53:09 PM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: IYAS9YAS

And that there is reason enough to bring them back.


60 posted on 03/17/2015 6:55:22 PM PDT by Cold Heart
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