Scientists use 'Jurassic Park' experiment to try to bring woolly mammoth back from the dead

dailymail.co.uk ^ | May 2, 2010 | David Derbyshire

[Free ThinkerNY]

Woolly mammoths could one day walk the Earth again, it seems.

In an extraordinary Jurassic Park- style experiment, DNA from a frozen specimen of the extinct giant was used to reproduce their blood.

And it revealed that the beasts used more than their distinctive shaggy coats to keep warm in harsh Arctic conditions 25,000 years ago - they had antifreeze in their veins.

The scientists believe the genetic adaptation technique could be used to resurrect body parts and proteins from other extinct animals.

Researcher Prof Kevin Campbell-of the University of Manitoba, Canada, said: 'The molecules are no different than going back in time and taking a blood sample from a real mammoth.'

To recreate the blood, the scientists used DNA preserved in bones from frozen Siberian specimens up to 43,000 years old.

It was used alongside genetic information from their descendants, Asian elephants.

And this revealed the woolly mammoth's blood adapted to cope with the freezing conditions.

Its 'antifreeze blood' was able to carry oxygen around the body even at low temperatures, researchers told Nature Genetics journal.

This is thought to have evolved after mammoth ancestors moved from tropical Africa in an Ice Age.

[Free ThinkerNY]

[a fool in paradise]

They died out for reason.

Man made global warming. It all started with the discovery of fire.

[a fool in paradise]

Our new secret weapon, T-Rex.

Can we work on bringing back T-Rex from the dead?

[a fool in paradise]

Well, even if they can get a fetus started, scientists WILL need a host womb to bring it to term...

[attiladhun2]

Host womb?—see post #15.

[NVDave]

Cool.

Then I’ll have a reason to buy a .470 Nitro Express.

[Little Ray]

Oh, c’mon. Wouldn’t you just LOVE to hunt a T-Rex or Triceratops with a 20mm ATR or .50 BMG rifle? Talk about a boon for big game hunters...

It ain’t the T-Rex that would bother me - its the little raptor-type critters that attack in packs...

[RichInOC]

What could possibly go wrong?

[Nachum]

You watch, they’ll make them all “protected species”....

[Grizzled Bear]

...just what we need -— zombie wooly mamoths.

For a Zomby Wooly Mammoth I would pay...Fifty Dollars!

[WayneS]

I thought all you had to do to bring them back was bang a gong...

[Clock King]

They probably went extinct because whatever plant life they ate went extinct. What do these numbskulls think they are going to feed it? And as a hybrid animal, there’s no telling.

[a fool in paradise]

You watch, they’ll make them all “protected PATENTED species”....

[Little Ray]

Well, just darn. That would be a LOT of shoveling...

[discostu]

Did these people not watch the second half of the movie? This never ends well, except for the precocious 13 year-old, they always come out golden.

[MHGinTN]

Back from extinction maybe, but not back from the dead. Liberals have such vivid imaginations don’tchaknow.

[ScottinVA]

Bring back the Wooly Mammoth for what reason? To terrorize cave men? Don’t the Afghans have enough problems?

[Wurlitzer]

Ah, the Woolly mammoths and other extinct species have nothing on Fedzilla.

No T-Rex or other dinosaur can compare to the power of Fedzilla. Fedzilla cannot be killed. It mutates every year into hundreds of other subspecies all with the ability to never die.

[SunkenCiv]

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[wildbill]

OK, Sunken, have I been predicting this for at least two years? Just goes to show I don’t have mammoth wool between my big old flapping ears.