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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
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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.
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posted on
03/17/2015 10:56:20 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
There was a reason that these creatures became extinct.
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posted on
03/17/2015 10:58:58 AM PDT
by
Parmy
To: Parmy
Most extinctions have nothing to do with the fitness of the organism. Extinction have been driven by catastrophic events. Many believe it was our ancestors who hunted the mammoth to extinction.
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03/17/2015 11:00:23 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: Parmy
There was a reason that these creatures became extinct.They tasted good?
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posted on
03/17/2015 11:00:40 AM PDT
by
IYAS9YAS
(Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
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.”
Usually the mother transfers antibodies to the fetus but it may be an issue if they are different species (proposal is to use an elephant surrogate). So you may be correct. It may have to go much further than antibiotics though
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posted on
03/17/2015 11:01:45 AM PDT
by
varyouga
To: C19fan
Scientists Take DNA Sample From Woolly Mammoth Leg for Cloning Project
Ahh ... come’on ... isn’t one Moosechelle enough?
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posted on
03/17/2015 11:02:08 AM PDT
by
boycott
To: Parmy
They tasted like chicken.
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posted on
03/17/2015 11:02:08 AM PDT
by
353FMG
To: IYAS9YAS
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posted on
03/17/2015 11:03:57 AM PDT
by
Bratch
To: Bratch
Chickens are probably the closest living relatives to T-Rex.
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posted on
03/17/2015 11:04:31 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: 353FMG
“His momma was an elephant,
his dad a woolly bull.”
To: C19fan
A living woolly mammoth at the zoo.. Who could top THAT to drive ticket sales?!
To: IYAS9YAS
There was a reason that these creatures became extinct.
They tasted good?
Same with the brontosuarus:
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posted on
03/17/2015 11:07:20 AM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Doctrine doesn't change. The trick is to find a way around it.)
To: CivilWarBrewing
I would love to see that. I wanted to be a paleontologist when I was a kid. I hope these Ruskies and Koreans do not resort to frog DNA to fill in missing sequences.
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posted on
03/17/2015 11:08:16 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
Whats next, Dolly the woolly mammoth?
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03/17/2015 11:10:38 AM PDT
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Don Corleone
("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
To: C19fan
I hope these Ruskies and Koreans do not resort to frog DNA to fill in missing sequences. Just what we need- a herd of gigantic furry amphibious croaking elephants with misshapen heads. Sometimes I feel like I'm living in an episode of 'The Simpsons'.
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03/17/2015 11:14:22 AM PDT
by
Riley
(The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
To: Riley
Just what we need- a herd of gigantic furry amphibious croaking elephants with misshapen heads. Sometimes I feel like I'm living in an episode of 'The Simpsons'. Frogs with tusks might be a good deal. You'd have something you could hold on to while you skin them.
To: C19fan
Seriously, had no one read/watched Jurassic Park? This will not end well.
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03/17/2015 11:19:17 AM PDT
by
kevkrom
(I'm not an unreasonable man... well, actually, I am. But hear me out anyway.)
To: C19fan
http://www.esd.ornl.gov/projects/qen/carbon11.html
And then what? The Woolly Mammoth was a herd animal so you would have to clone several beasts. At the same time, they would starve since their grazing area, the steppe tundra/mammoth steppe no longer exists.
To: C19fan
The only people I can see profiting from a warehouse full of woolly mammoth legs are...KFC!
To: kevkrom
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posted on
03/17/2015 11:23:11 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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