Some folks think mammoth is good eating.
Posted on 09/05/2018 6:52:16 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The frozen carcass of the dark-brown baby horse is from an extinct species is up to 40,000 years old, and the animal was perfectly preserved in the Siberian permafrost in the Batagai crater in Yakutia, the coldest region in Russia.
Leading researcher of the laboratory of Mammoth Museum Dr Semyon Grigoriev said: 'Fortunately, the animal's muscle tissues were undamaged and well preserved, so we managed to get samples of this unique find for biotechnology research.'
South Korean cloning expert Professor Hwang Woo Suk, currently in Yakutsk, told The Siberian Times that a joint bid is underway to find a living cell for the possible cloning of the foal.
‘If we manage to find a cell, then we will do our best to clone the unique animal,’ he said.
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The foal was dug from its icy grave in the Batagai depression or crater last month.
The discovery came during searches for preserved remains of woolly mammoths in Yakutia, also called Sakha Republic.
Earlier Dr Grigoriev said: ‘The foal has no damage to its carcass, even its hair is preserved - which is incredibly rare for such ancient finds.’ Its mane and tail are intact.
The foal was male and around 20 days old when it died. Its overall colouring was light ginger.
After tens of thousands of years of dirt was washed off, the mane and tail were black - with a dark stripe along the spine.
‘This is the first find in the world find of a pre-historic horse of such a young age and with such an amazing level of preservation.’
Modern-day Yakut horse is the hardiest in the world, surviving temperatures of minus 60C in the blistering Siberian winters.
The earlier breed populated Yakutia between 30,000 and 40,000 years ago, he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at siberiantimes.com ...
Great. All we need is for all those dinosaurs to roam the earth again. :-)
“After tens of thousands of years of dirt was washed off, the mane and tail were black - with a dark stripe along the spine.
That dark stripe is called a “dorsal” stripe. Buckskin, Red Dunn and Bay Quarter Horses have black manes and tails. Buckskins and Dunns sometimes have a dorsal stripe. As for the 40K; likely actually closer to 10K or less since Biblical Creation.
Estimates of the number of wooly mammoths buried and frozen in Russian Siberia is 150 million.
At some point, someone will successfully clone a mammoth.
Wanna bet there are some horse breeders really interested in that foal?
Pussies.
Go for it and do a Raptor! What could go wrong?
I thought that he was living in Texas and cloning dogs for the girlfriends of billionaires ...
He does get around a lot ...
I would love to see this animal. But, isn’t it cruel to bring it back a sole individual of a species. How would any of us like to be totally alone in this world.
Some folks think mammoth is good eating.
They also plan to bring back the cave lion. Greaaat! Just what we need.
Some folks think mammoth is good eating.
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Mammoth. It’s what’s for dinner.
He would get along with a pony herd.
That was an absolutely hilarious episode. Walt was savoring him some mammoth steak and Dr Fleischman was apoplectic. Cherchez la bœuf.
Finding a frozen mammoth isn't the trick. The trick is finding one that froze soon after death and remained hard-frozen ever since. Other mammoth remains have been found that were still frozen, still intact and still incredibly well preserved, but none of them was found to have DNA suitable for use in cloning. 30,000 years is a lot of summers to endure without once thawing, even partially.
At least 18 different species of mammal already have been cloned. If there's enough money behind it, the woolly mammoth is just a matter of time and finding the right donor.
Thanks BenLurkin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmlpSOHc5A4&t=6s
This video goes into considerable detail and notes the close association between Korean and Russian scientists in a cooperative effort
The Koreans are probably the foremost cloning experts and the Russians know all about hte mammoth remains
Haven’t we decided that dinosaurs are actually birds?
I can’t keep up with Settled Science.
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