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Russia plans cloning facility to bring extinct species like woolly mammoths back to life (tr)
Mirror ^ | August 30, 2018 | Will Stewart and Bradley Jolly

Posted on 08/30/2018 8:08:09 AM PDT by EdnaMode

Extinct woolly mammoths, cave lions and other long-gone species may be brought back to lifee in a new £4.5million cloning facility in Russia, scientists claim.

The new Jurassic Park-style centre will be a "world class paleo-genetic scientific hub" in the world's coldest city, Yakutsk, in the remote north-east of the country.

Vladimir Putin's exact plans will be unveiled in September at an investment forum but experts say the centre will aim "to study extinct animals from living cells - and to restore such creatures as the woolly mammoth, woolly rhinoceros, cave lion and breeds of long-gone horses".

The cloning laboratories - some sunk deep in the permafrost soil - will extend research by Russian scientists who are already working closely with South Korean specialists.

They've found DNA from the ancient animals preserved in remains encased in frozen soil - or permafrost - for tens of thousands of years.

Dr Lena Grigorieva - who drafted plans for the centre - said: “There is no such unique material anywhere else in the world.

(Excerpt) Read more at mirror.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Science; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; jurassicpark; mammoth; mammoths; mastodon; mastodons; phony; russia; woollymammoth; woollymammoths; yakutsk
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That's what the world needs. Woolly Mammoths!
1 posted on 08/30/2018 8:08:09 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode

so they didn’t see the Jurassic movies ,LOL


2 posted on 08/30/2018 8:09:32 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: EdnaMode

I can’t read the article; but for what purpose? This is crazy.


3 posted on 08/30/2018 8:12:40 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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To: butlerweave
Two possibilities:

1. Putin is pushing this as a jobs program for Siberia.

2. Russia plans on invading China using herds of woolly mammoths like Hannibal used elephants.

4 posted on 08/30/2018 8:12:45 AM PDT by Pecos (Better the one you have with you than the one you left at home.)
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To: EdnaMode

Cool! Can’t wait to go on a guided mammoth hunt.


5 posted on 08/30/2018 8:12:51 AM PDT by dinodino
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To: dinodino

Cool! Can’t wait to go on a guided mammoth hunt.

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You only get a spear. Lol


6 posted on 08/30/2018 8:15:56 AM PDT by laplata (Leftists/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: EdnaMode
Can they make them bite-size?


7 posted on 08/30/2018 8:17:41 AM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
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To: EdnaMode
I've head they are quite tasty!😋
8 posted on 08/30/2018 8:18:58 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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To: laplata

Yep, Sabre toothed tigers should be re-introduced to the wild in southern California.


9 posted on 08/30/2018 8:19:11 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: EdnaMode

“Life, uhh, finds a way.”


10 posted on 08/30/2018 8:20:15 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: EdnaMode
They said that 45 years ago. Do you see any woolly mammoths running around?

11 posted on 08/30/2018 8:20:41 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: EdnaMode

Cave lions. Great! Like we don’t have enough timberwolves and grizzlies.


12 posted on 08/30/2018 8:27:33 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Cowboy Bob

Walt thought so.


13 posted on 08/30/2018 8:30:06 AM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: EdnaMode

Why not? What could go wrong?

Mammoth burgers....mmmmmmmmm


14 posted on 08/30/2018 8:51:50 AM PDT by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: bk1000

Local farmers might object to something the size of an elephant raiding their fields. And if you thought hitting a deer was bad for your car, these things might hit back.


15 posted on 08/30/2018 9:21:11 AM PDT by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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To: EdnaMode
Since there is no longer any place on earth where they could actually survive, a pretty pointless exercise.

Some species go extinct for a reason.


16 posted on 08/30/2018 9:39:26 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: EdnaMode

One day, a human is going to emerge out of the Permafrost. The Russians and the Koreans will clone him/her in a New York minute. Depend on it.


17 posted on 08/30/2018 9:40:28 AM PDT by centurion316 (Back from exile from 4/2016 until 4/2018.)
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To: centurion316

Yes.


18 posted on 08/30/2018 9:41:21 AM PDT by caww
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To: jmcenanly

Think of the money that could be made! Putin could sell new wooly Mammoths to zoos and circuses. Would you pay to see a mammoth? I would. A trained Mammoth act could headline the Moscow Circus, Headline in Las Vegas! The Circ de Paree ! Such a thing would put Russia on the Map. Not to mention “Mammoth Burgers” and “Mammoth steaks.”


19 posted on 08/30/2018 9:48:04 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: glorgau

Good thinking. Lol


20 posted on 08/30/2018 9:58:02 AM PDT by laplata (Leftists/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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