Posted on 04/18/2005 8:08:56 AM PDT by Drew68
Scientists with the Mammoth Creation Project hope to find a frozen woolly mammoth specimen with sperm DNA. The sperm DNA would then be injected into a female elephant; by repeating the procedure with offspring, a creature 88 percent mammoth could be produced within fifty years.
"This is possible with modern technology we already have," said Akira Iritani, who is chairman of the genetic engineering department at Kinki University in Japan and a member of the Mammoth Creation Project. However, the DNA in mammoth remains found to date has been unusable, damaged by time and climate changes. "From a geologist's point of view, the preservation of viable sperm is very unlikely, and this is so far confirmed by the poor condition of cells in the mammoth carcasses," said Andrei Sher, Russian paleontologist and mammoth expert.
Woolly mammoths became extinct about 10,000 years ago as warming weather reduced their food sources. Although only about a hundred specimens have been found, as many as ten million mammoths are believed buried in permanently frozen Russian soil.
Irtani has already picked out a preserve for living mammoths in northern Siberia; this "Pleistocene Park" would feature extinct species of deer, woolly rhinoceroses and maybe even saber-toothed cats, along with the mammoths.
In his novel Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton popularized the idea of using dinosaur DNA taken from mosquito-like insects trapped in amber to create a Jurassic Park of recreated dinosaurs. Unhappily for the Pleistocene Park planners, both books and all three movies ended badly for most of the participants, including the investors. Also, astute scientists are already pointing out that these experiments would merely create mammoth-like creatures, not mammoths themselves. This wasn't pointed out until the third movie in the Jurassic Park series.
Read more at Woolly Mammoth Resurrection.
nuke r.
We send the cat to Florida, and point to George Felos' office... See kitty... Behind that door... DINNER!
Sounds like they must have a lot of extra dough laying around there in Japan. God love 'em. They better not come arounfd asking Uncle Sam for a handout to revitalize mammoth sperm.
> Immanuel Velikovshy thought otherwise.
Velikovsky was a goober. Ranks up there with Van Danniken.
> The mammoths became extinct when Siberia was suddenly thrust into the artic circle
Hogwash. Mammoths ranged over the entire northern hemisphere... Europe, Asia, North America. Last species of mammoth to go extinct only did so in the last 5000 or so years (a dwarf species on some island or other).
> Whatever killed mammoths must have happened suddenly.
Individuals, yes. Eat some daisies, go for a walk on a frozen lake, break through the ice, die and get frozen. Pretty simple, no need for Jupiter to spit out Venus as a comet to explain it.
Ice Age Park ping
I believe that was the job of the Jeff Goldblum character in Jurassic Park.
(Nobody listened to him either.)
Ask an Australian Rabbit.
> What now long-dormant diseases were hosted by Woolly Mammoths?
Irrelevant. A genetically recreated mammoth would not bring those diseases with it (apart from genetic diseases, of course, which are no threat to others), anymore than it would bring its memories or the mud stains on its fur.
so jesus promised that at the end of the age he would return and raise from the dead in the flesh all those who believed in him.
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he didn't say anything about wolly mammoths.
Surely there are better things to do than to fret about how other people spend their own money, no?
A direct clone of a 10,000 year old wooley mammoth probably wouldn't last 10 days outdoors. There are so many new and evolved viruses that his immunity system just wouldn't be up to the task.
I don't know about Jurassic Park, but it would make a great episode of South Park.
> Want a T.Rex; de-evolve a bird, or what ever........
Already been partially done. Chicken (IIRC) DNA was tinkered with, and some dormant genes were re-activated, producing chickens with teeth.
Glo-BULL warming without George Bush's fault?.........
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"Woolly mammoths became extinct about 10,000 years ago as warming weather reduced their food sources"
Warming weather would be, um, global warming? Is there a reason they don't use this perfectly accurate term to describe a process industralization had nothing to do with?
BTW, Kinki is a prefecture in Japan near Osaka. Dated a girl from Kinki Dai (university) once...
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