Frozen Woolly Mammoth Arrives in Japan

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[SunkenCiv]

Scientists may use mammoth cells for cloning
Saturday Argus
Independent Online
March 19 2005 at 02:43PM

A frozen mammoth dug up from the Siberian tundra has been unveiled in central Japan in a preview of the six-month World Exposition, which is expected to draw millions of tourists. The beast, believed to have lived 18 000 years ago, has been preserved in a giant refrigerator... Full-bodied mammoths have been unearthed in the past, but this exhibit is billed as the most successful attempt yet to display the animal almost fully. The mammoth on display has tusks, a front leg and a nearly intact, soil-coloured head covered with muscle tissue and some woolly hair... Visitors can view the mammoth, which was excavated in 2002, from windows at the lab, where the temperature and humidity are controlled by computers. A group of Russian and Japanese scientists hope to clone mammoths from the animal’s remains by using elephant egg cells.

I'm sure, if there were Moslem terrorists operating in Japan, that they'd blow the place up just to kill as many people as possible.

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[dasboot]

Scientists will conduct tests in a laboratory with a gallery so visitors can watch.

" Tastes like chicken!"

[blam]

"The Japanese organizers of the 2005 world's fair have shipped a 18,000-year-old frozen woolly mammoth from Siberia to become the centerpiece attraction."

Looks like the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) got this critter.

[LibKill]

Always with the Helen Thomas photos.

I think you're in love! :)

[elli1]

This will probably be eaten. most things that are on the verge of extinction are fair game for the Japanese dinner plate. If they can hunt whales to the brink of extinction why not have some Mammoth wrapped in seaweed.

[elli1]

This will probably be eaten. most things that are on the verge of extinction are fair game for the Japanese dinner plate. If they can hunt whales to the brink of extinction why not have some Mammoth wrapped in seaweed.

The American Buffalo

[Esther Ruth]

We picked up two videos for $1 at a dollar store in Chicago suburbs called Deals just a month ago or so.

Discovery Channel, Raising the Mammoth (2000), and Land of the Mammoth (2001). They were excellent, my son loved them.

Off subject but we were in Naperville yesterday shopping and outside one of the stores what did we see, a man walking the family pet while his wife shopped inside, it was an Arctic Fox! Arctic Foxes may become the newest family pet. The animal looked very scared, her eyes, well, she was not thrilled to be out at the mall. I spoke to the man awhile. He had had her 1 year and his family still did not come to close to her and the owner still said she would get a little aggressive when food was around, that there was still some concern in his mind about her safety with people!

[wildbill]

coming soon to a Benihana near you.

[hosepipe]

[ 2. How could a complete mammoth freeze fast enough to be preserved almost whole? ]

In far north Alaska (NOW) it regularly gets 50 60 degees BELOW Zero... the wind chill would be way below that.. What if during an unusual winter it got 80 to 100 degrees degrees below zero (and the storm went south) the wind chill could easily freeze ANYTHING quickly too.. At -30 degrees F. if you throw a cup of coffee into the air it hits the ground frozen in "tinkles" plus a little frozen air fog..

Dry ice(frozen carbon dioxide) is -80 degrees F.. Some weather can get colder than even that.. know what I mean.?.

[djf]

A regular african elephant can easily eat 3-4 hundred pounds of grass and bark a day. A mammoth can be expected to eat even more.

I saw a picture of an excavation site for on of the mammoths once. All you see is ice. Then, near the horizon, you see alot of frozen water. That's it. No trees, no waving fields of grass, no low lying scrub plants, nothing.

And there were TENS OF THOUSANDS of the critters up there. Along with giant rhinos and a bunch of other very large mammals.

The gold miners in Alaska and northern Canada found stuff. Vast areas of smashed and crushed bones. Few of the bones were articulated (like your bones would be connected if you fell down and died and decomposed and weren't eaten.)

The majority of the stuff (they call muck) is like it went through a blender crushed and smashed bones, trees, river rock, all mixed together, and flash frozen.

Whatever happened, it WAS NOT a nice gentle warming where the ice caps melted and gradually receded. It was much more cataclysmic.


Clone the beast!
I wanna eat mammoth meat on Mondays!

[Mr. K]

great idea~! I would like to get myself a wooly mamoth rug

[Stonewall Jackson]

The Louis L'Amour book you are talking about, Jubal Sackett is one of my favorites. It is Robinson Crusoe, The Swiss Family Robinson, and the Lewis and Clark Expedition all rolled into one.

[Ichneumon]

1. How did a mammoth very large animal) survive in the Arctic?

Siberia is not the same as "the Arctic".

2. How could a complete mammoth freeze fast enough to be preserved almost whole?

Buried in a snow avalanche or falling into an ice crevasse in a glacier would do that without a problem, among other plausible methods.

3. Why was their grains and pollens from a much warmer climate in his stomach?

Because grains and pollens preserve well and could have been left over from the Summer even in the winter. Also there are often quite different climates within a few dozen miles from each other (even today), such as on the slopes of mountains and on the borders of glaciers, etc.

[Ichneumon]

The gold miners in Alaska and northern Canada found stuff. Vast areas of smashed and crushed bones. Few of the bones were articulated (like your bones would be connected if you fell down and died and decomposed and weren't eaten.) The majority of the stuff (they call muck) is like it went through a blender crushed and smashed bones, trees, river rock, all mixed together, and flash frozen.

Glaciers do that as they move. (Except for the "flash frozen" part, which is an exaggeration.)

Whatever happened, it WAS NOT a nice gentle warming where the ice caps melted and gradually receded. It was much more cataclysmic.

"Cataclysmic" can be a relative term. Those fields of "muck" could have been gathered over many, many years as a glacier crawled over the landscape.

[tarheelswamprat]

The majority of the stuff (they call muck) is like it went through a blender crushed and smashed bones, trees, river rock, all mixed together, and flash frozen.

Whatever happened, it WAS NOT a nice gentle warming where the ice caps melted and gradually receded. It was much more cataclysmic.

That certainly seems to be a reasonable conclusion. Perhaps a "pole shift" or an asteroid collision which quickly altered the Earth's axis of rotation could be the mechanism.

Clone the beast! I wanna eat mammoth meat on Mondays!

A wildlife organization I belong to just had a big regional "wild game cook-off" event yesterday. I had some quail soup, elk roast, bear stew and cajun-fried alligator, but at the end of the day I had that "something's lacking" feeling. Now I realize what it was - no mammoth!

Thanks for the follow-up!

[fish hawk]

The Mammoth's name is "Sushi".

[satchmodog9]

I had four reples today from an article I posted five months ago. What gives.

[-=Wing_0_Walker=-]

The Japanese must be gong crazy and be terrified. " Mamoff alive! Mammoff alive! Oh rell."

[djf]

I admit I'm gettin old, but I can still outrun a glacier!