[Drew68]

Didn't see this posted. Found it interesting.

[goldstategop]

"Pleistocene Park"? Don't laugh - with modern DNA technology, its entirely possible to bring back long-extinct species. Michael Crichton had no idea just how realistic it would be.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[Ashamed Canadian]

Surely there are better things to spend money on, no?

[KarlInOhio]

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.

Not just big, hairy elephants, but inbred crazy big hairy elephants.

[Lekker 1]

...chairman of the genetic engineering department at Kinki University in Japan...

Man...betcha that's one hell of a party school!

[nuke rocketeer]

Will the saber tooth cats eat lawyers? Or would they get food poisoning from ingesting rotten legalese?

[The Great Yazoo]

I guess this puts the environmentalist wacko assertion that "Extinction is Forever!" to the lie, doesn't it?

[Thrusher]

Does anyone on this planet have any concept of the Law of Unintended Consequences? Anyone?

[stainlessbanner]

Flinstone, paging Fred Flintstone

[captain_dave]

"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."

Immanuel Velikovshy thought otherwise. He speculated that the Earth was moved in its orbit by interaction with other comets or planets. The mammoths became extinct when Siberia was suddenly thrust into the artic circle after the axis of rotation was shifted to the present day 23 1/2 degrees. A much better explanation considering what's been found in frozen mammoth stomachs. Whatever killed mammoths must have happened suddenly. Otherwise, the mammoths would have migrated. Also, the frozen mammoths likely died from drowning and freezing because they are preserved so well.

[najida]

Whoo hoo! What a day....first Pompei now the wooly mammoth....

~~sigh~~

Seriously, too of my favorite topics (and yes, I think makin' a new one would be great).

[xJones]

One question: would they taste good?

[sportutegrl]

Are you sure this isn't the plot for Ice Age Two?

[incredulous joe]

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.

[Professional Engineer]

Ice Age Park ping

[lmailbvmbipfwedu]

It would seem to me that if evolution is the way of the world it would work both ways. It should be possible to de-evolve our DNA to the starting point and we would have all of the missing links plus our ancestors.....Want a T.Rex; de-evolve a bird, or what ever........

[ckilmer]

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.

[Richard Kimball]

I don't know about Jurassic Park, but it would make a great episode of South Park.

[Red Badger]

...10,000 years ago as warming weather reduced their food...

Glo-BULL warming without George Bush's fault?.........

[GOP Jedi]

"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...

[cvq3842]

It is interesting.

I bet we can do it. Whether we should is another question.