The 39,000-year-old female baby woolly mammoth named Yuka from the Siberian permafrost is unveiled for the media at an exhibition in Yokohama, on July 9, 2013. Photograph: Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images
Posted on 07/14/2013 8:08:58 AM PDT by Renfield
The idea would make headlines around the world and bring tears of joy to the planet's journalists. An adorable baby woolly mammoth, tottering on its newborn legs, is introduced to the media. Cloned from a few cells scraped from the permafrost of Siberia, the little creature provides the latest proof of the might of modern science and demonstrates the fact that extinction has at long last lost its sting.
It is a fascinating prospect, one that was raised again last week when the most recently discovered carcass of a mammoth was revealed to the public in Yokohama, Japan.
The female, thought to have been around 50 when she died, had lain frozen in the ground for tens of thousands of years. Yet she still had hair, muscle tissue, and possibly blood. Samples have now been sent to South Korea, where scientists say they are planning to use them to clone a mammoth, though the proposal is considered to be highly controversial.....
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The 39,000-year-old female baby woolly mammoth named Yuka from the Siberian permafrost is unveiled for the media at an exhibition in Yokohama, on July 9, 2013. Photograph: Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images
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I see a market for Mastadon meat.
I was thinking the same thing. If it doesn’t work out then just kill it and grill it.
Cajuns have a recipe for it.
Did NO ONE pay attention during the movie 'Jurassaic Park'???!?
I saw a baby wooly mammoth in better shape than this one once. It was hairless but the skin was completely intact. The organs were removed and on display.
“The question is: should we do it?”
The answer is, hell yes!!!
Although the idea of a Mastodon steak is intriguing (It's just so hard to get pachyderm meat any more), having a stampede of Mastodons does have me a bit worried.
I want a pet Velociraptor.
The velociraptor, that is.
But of course.
I knew you were a big fan of velociraptors...
All the Yankee yo-yo’ wanted to make fun of us Texans for having mammoth size BBQ pits.
Well who’s laughing now?
McDonald mammoth burger?
Unquestionably, undoubtedly, yes!
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