Posted on 04/21/2016 9:15:31 AM PDT by C19fan
This is some news that actually cropped up last month which caught my eye, but we haven’t gotten a chance to circle back to it until now. If you’re in the market for one of the more exotic pet options out there you may have the chance to look into getting yourself a Panthera Leo Spelaea, better known as the Eurasian cave lion. Under most circumstances this would seem like a bit of a tall order because the big cat has been extinct for more than 12,000 years. (Some time during the end of the last ice age.) Up until now the best look you could get at one was something along these lines.
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I’m still waiting for a miniature cloned mammoth. A “mammouse.” Be a great pet!
Global Warming causes the return of ice age mammals.
Easier to map the DNA of the extinct species and modify the DNA of an existing close relative to match it.
God let them go ... we should too
I just spit coffee ... fortunately I turned just in time.
Extinct, or (like some speculate about Neanderthals) absorbed into the current population?
The mammoths have several good reasons to be brought back:
* people compete with elephants for living space in tropical climates, but no one cares if mammoths run around in Canada or Siberia
* bringing them back may restore the tundra grasslands to health
* we can engineer them to be tourist attractions to areas otherwise neglected
I dig up a mammoth and baby in a peat field in IN back in the 70’s.
There was still pliable tissue on some of the bones.
She had gotten “bogged” down and rolled over on her back, so the leg bones and pelvis were the first things we found. Bethel College got all of it but a femur, rib and vertebrae that I kept.
I’ve been calling for bringing back sabre tooth tigers. These lions are close enough. Next, idiots will be signing up on the wait list for cute little cuddly t-rex puppies.
No no no!
Go for the Saber toothed cat!!!!
I want to see that critter eat!!
Extinct during the Younger Dryas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas) when many large animals died off after several 2 kilometer comet fragments crashed into the Ice Cap - the heat bursts causing instantaneous large scale melting and resulting floods worldwide raising ocean level many hundreds of feet, generating a black rain and nights that lasted years, and bitter cold ... until 1000 years later when once again the Earth crossed the comet’s path and more fragments hit the remaining Ice Cap reversing the cold and turning the climate warm once again.
Extinct.
Except that the current sized elephants (African and Indian) are the largest animal structures that can exist in Earth’s current gravity regime.
Mammoths, especially the Colombian, would be unable to stand as their rib cages collapsed under the animal’s weight crushing their lungs. Same for Dinos except the oxygen level are not high enough for them to breathe.
Funny Story
It’s quite an amazing coincidence that where ever pre-historic man 1st showed up, a comet or meteor would soon hit the area afterward wiping out all the large animals in the area.
HUH?
How did the earth's gravity increase that much in 10,000 years????
Same for Dinos except the oxygen level are not high enough for them to breathe.
See the Blue Whale. It is much larger than any Dinosaur and it has a big oxygen hungry mammalian brain. It has no problem breathing or getting enough oxygen.
Modern humans (homo sapiens sapiens - you and me or maybe not you) have been around for 200,000 years - do you imagine they were all just hanging around their parents place playing pool in the basement when the internet went on the fritz?
They were only ‘pre-historic’ in the sense that they did not live in the past 6,000 years.
Gravity has changed just like everything else. It is physically impossible for anything larger that the current largest land animal (the Indian elephant) to be supported by bones of calcium - the material and the bone density just cannot handle more weight.
The blue whale is not a land animal - sea animal are supported by the ocean. That is an entirely different situation.
Dinos were much more dependent on oxygen as they were neither mammals or reptiles - during their time, oxygen levels were far higher then today - no one knows why or what happened to all the O2 and the CO2.
I wonder what restroom it will want to use.
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