Mammoths may roam again after 27,000 years

Times on line/ Drudgereport ^ | Aug. 15, 2006 | Mark Henderson, Science Editor Times on line

[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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[Tokra]

Funny, I seem to remember being taught that the ice age that killed the dinosaurs killed the mammoth as well.

May be you don't realize that there were many ice ages. They started occurring 700 million years ago and the last one only ended 15,000 years ago. There have been 60 separate ice ages in just the past 2 million years.

The dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years, the mammoth, the saber-tooth tiger and the giant beaver only went extinct during the last ice age - not the ones hundreds of millions of years ago.

[Thermalseeker]

No thanks, I was just kidding. Maybe you should stop by your local five and dime and buy a sense of humor. LOL

Perhaps you should put a "/sarcasm" tag at the end of your comments so we'll all know when you are attempting humor?

[Protagoras]

OK Francis

[DavemeisterP]

I read a Louis La'More book several years ago that had them in the story and mentioned in the back several sightings of mammoths in the Rocky Mountains in the 1800's. One was by a painter that painted them, hairy. He had never been to a circus, or, if my memory serves me right, would NOT have known that they were hairy. I think that they have only been known to be hairy in the last 100 years or so. Which brings me to an interesting point, you're welcome to fill in the rest.

[MarkL]

Did somebody find a blue dress?

Mark

[MarkL]

The last Wooly Mammoth roamed the Earth 7 seconds ago.

I got me a "Mammoth Gun," just to keep the mammoths under control here in Kansas City... See how well it's been working? No Wooly Mammoths messing with local gardens around here!

Mark

[MarkL]

I'd like to have a pet mammoth.

Everyone says that until they have to change the litter box.

It wouldn't be bad if you could just cross a mammoth with a pot bellied pig... They'd have "smallish droppings," not too different from black market beagles. But you know, it's going to be tough, because like the Loverboy songs says, "pig and elephant dna just won't splice!" But who knows, maybe pig and mammoth dna will splice. We need to see!

Mark

[MarkL]

So man and mammoth walked the earth together, wow, Dawin must be rolling over in his grave.

One would have thought even creationists had heard that stone-age humans made cave paintings of mammoths. As the great philosopher Homer Simpson would put it, DOH!

I KNOW for a fact that people and mammoths lived alongside each other. I saw it on TV. And when the mammoth talked, he sounded remarkably like Ray Romano!

Mark

[MarkL]

I was thinking more along the lines of Schrödinger's Mammoth...

You'd need a pretty big box. And it would probably need to be soundproof.

Mark

[MarkL]

The nearly extinct Naked Mammoth has been cited recently...

Well, please post some quotes! I'd love to hear what they've got to say!

Mark

[MarkL]

Once seen on a bumper sticker...

"Why vote for the lesser evil? Vote for Cthulu!"

Mark

[higgmeister]

So man and mammoth walked the earth together, wow, Dawin must be rolling over in his grave.

It sounds like you think the rest of the world didn't already know that for the past seventy-five years!

Have you ever heard of Folsom and Clovis points that litter the great Southwest?

Do you think those Mammoths were hunted by carnivorous rabbits?

You should have read more as a child. For that matter you should do that still now.

[higgmeister]

Plinking?

Best by far!!

Best all week!

[higgmeister]

Francesco was no other but a meere nouice, and that so newly, that to vse the olde prouerbe, he had scarce seene the Lions.

Francesco was a mere novice, and even so new, that to use the old proverb, he had scarcely seen the lions.

I love our language! Thank you Dr. Asimov.

[HayekRocks]

I KNOW for a fact that people and mammoths lived alongside each other. I saw it on TV. And when the mammoth talked, he sounded remarkably like Ray Romano!

Were there people in those movies? I only remember furry things.

It does raise the question, though, whether neuroticism was the cause of the mammoth's extinction.

[Labyrinthos]

Wooly mammoths have been extinct for 7.2 nanoseconds.

I just saw a wooly mammoth in my front yard.

[Lazamataz]

I just saw a wooly mammoth in my front yard.

Get into the 21st century!

Upgrade to a Polyestery Mammoth.

[Lazamataz]

I only remember furry things.

This will go on my tombstone.

[Silicon Cowboy]

Big game hunting, rides, circus shows, pelts for winter coats.

[SunkenCiv]

Mammoths may roam again after 27,000 years
Times Online (U.K.) | 08/15/2006 | Mark Henderson
Posted on 08/15/2006 12:17:59 AM EDT by peyton randolph
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1683793/posts