Researchers aim to resurrect Mammoth in five years

TOKYO (AFP) – Japanese researchers will launch a project this year to resurrect the long-extinct mammoth by using cloning technology to bring the ancient pachyderm back to life in around five years time.

The researchers will try to revive the species by obtaining tissue this summer from the carcass of a mammoth preserved in a Russian research laboratory, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported.

"Preparations to realise this goal have been made," Akira Iritani, leader of the team and a professor emeritus of Kyoto University, told the mass-circulation daily.

Under the plan, the nuclei of mammoth cells will be inserted into an elephant's egg cell from which the nuclei have been removed, to create an embryo containing mammoth genes, the report said.

The embryo will then be inserted into an elephant's uterus in the hope that the animal will eventually give birth to a baby mammoth.

The elephant is the closest modern relative of the mammoth, a huge woolly mammal believed to have died out with the last Ice Age.

Wooly Mammoth sweaters and rugs! I’m in!

Thank God Japan is a tiny little island for when things
go really wrong.

No it’s not...even Jesus used parables to make his point...and there is symbolism of that nature in the scriptures. Read Revelations a few times just to start.

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Not a correction, but an enlightenment - thanks! Now we know from Tolkein’s prescience that Middle Earth was existent during the Neogene between 23 and 2 million years ago. Now if we could further pin down the correct Age or Ages....

Removes one point the liberals use to control us with.

They would love to bring back their original mascot, the flightless dodo bird, and their holy grail is bringing back the Neanderthals, both to have sex with them and to buy their votes.

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