Scientists Take DNA Sample From Woolly Mammoth Leg for Cloning Project

NBC News ^ | March 16, 2015 | Devin Coldewey

[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.

[IYAS9YAS]

There’s another Far Side I can’t find.My favorite was the Thagomizer, named after the late Thag Simmons.

[jjsheridan5]

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.

[ohioman]

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.

[Texan Tory]

“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...

[Slyfox]

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.

[gundog]

Aids began with a monkey.

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

[FateAmenableToChange]

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.

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

Mammoth told me there'd be days like this.

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[SunkenCiv]

Great, now I've got the chorus of an ELO song going through my head.

[BenLurkin]

Fred Flintstone and family at the drive through.

[MaxMax]

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

[djf]

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...

[PapaBear3625]

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.

[Gator113]

We’re going to need bigger guns.

[wildbill]

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?

[TigersEye]

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.

[left that other site]

Just what we always needed./s

[Cold Heart]

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

[Cold Heart]

And that there is reason enough to bring them back.