Posted on 08/15/2006 4:46:58 AM PDT by thiscouldbemoreconfusing
BODIES of extinct Ice Age mammals, such as woolly mammoths, that have been frozen in permafrost for thousands of years may contain viable sperm that could be used to bring them back from the dead, scientists said yesterday.
Research has indicated that mammalian sperm can survive being frozen for much longer than was previously thought, suggesting that it could potentially be recovered from species that have died out.
Several well-preserved mammoth carcasses have been found in the permafrost of Siberia, and scientists estimate that there could be millions more.
Last year a Canadian team demonstrated that it was possible to extract DNA from the specimens, and announced the sequencing of about 1 per cent of the genome of a mammoth that died about 27,000 years ago.
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Exactly.
Darn you...
With a couple more tusks and enough big saddles, we could use them to take over Minas Tirith. Just a suggestion.
Great minds, etc.
".....Everyone says that until they have to change the litter box...."
I need the stuff for my garden.
"I have seen the Elephant" ... is known to have been used during the California gold rush days...
Frankly, I'd me more interested in seeing the Morroccan Elephant brought back to life rather than a Wooly Mammoth, but that's just me.
Actually: according to my calulations, it may happen around 26595.9567 years from now....such stupid nonsense, where does the MSM, get this crap...
This whole thread looks like something the pranksters at DU might attempt.
Their mind is made up, don't confuse them with the facts.
Science has always maintained man and mammoth co-existed... and their extinction was likely due to overhunting by man.. not millions of years in the past, but in recent history. In North America, after Humans crossed the land bridge from Asia... but again, don't confuse em with facts.
I have found that the facts in the creationist/evolutionist debate fall on deaf ears, particularly on the anti-evolutionary side of things.
I find it quite amusing since Even the Vatican has embraced Evolution as a viable theory and not in conflict with the faith..
After all, change is the very evidence of God's existance. Nothing changes without something else first acting upon it to force that change, and that even was acted on by something else... etc etc etc back to the creation... and that first mover is God in the judeo/christian world view. Why some folks believe change is somehow a threat to religion is beyond me, its primafacia evidence of God himself.
I was once killed by a Wooly Mammoth.
I got better!
No they didn't. Anyway, the last mammoth died 4000 years ago.
There were reports 400 years ago in Canada.
In the Pittsburg Zoo, if I'm not mistaken.
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