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Posted on 01/13/2011 7:32:15 PM PST by Nachum
The woolly mammoth, extinct for thousands of years, could be brought back to life in as little as four years thanks to a breakthrough in cloning technology. Previous efforts in the 1990s to recover nuclei in cells from the skin and muscle tissue from mammoths found in the Siberian permafrost failed because they had been too badly damaged by the extreme cold. But a technique pioneered in 2008 by Dr. Teruhiko Wakayama, of the Riken Centre for Developmental Biology, was successful in cloning a mouse from the cells of another mouse that had been frozen for 16 years.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Gardner on the Mammoth
” The Yakuts of the neighborhood had cut off the flesh, with which they had fed their dogs; wild beasts, such as white bears, wolves, wolverines, and foxes had also fed upon it, and traces of their footsteps were seen around. The skeleton almost cleared of flesh, remained whole, with the exception of one foreleg. The spine of the back, one scapula, the pelvis, and other three limbs were still held together by the ligaments and by parts of the skin; the other scapula was found not far off. The head was covered with a dry skin; one of the ears was furnished with a tuft of hairs; the balls of the eyes were still distinguishable; the brain still occupied the cranium but seemed dried up; the point of the lower lip had been gnawed and the upper lip had been distroyed so as to expose the teeth; the neck was furnished with a long flowing mane; the skin, of a dark-grey color, covered with black hairs and a reddish wool, was so heavy that ten persons found great difficulty in transporting it to shore.
http://www.holloworbs.com/gardner_on_the_mammoth.htm
“We should make the Mammoth the mascot of the Tea party.
Hell of a lot more intimidating than an ole elephant.”
I’m old enough to remember the Barry Goldwater campaign of 1964. Some editorial cartoonists at the time did use mammoths as the symbol of Goldwater Republicans, a sort of sneer at them for being supposedly “old-fashioned.”
I think that they were Mastodon ribs, but don’t quote me.
If successful, can we do away with the Endangered Species Act?
Rodeo!
I wanna ride that sucker first!
Why do we need a wooly mammoth? Is Roseanne Barr looking for a new mate?
Give it The Coffee and hold pit matches with them!
Sid
Can you imagine the size of the spurs you'd need?
Mammoth? Maybe.
I had a dream where an Allosaur was running at me.
Emptied the magazine at it and it expired only a few feet away.
My bud asked me how I knew that I could take it down.
I answered that I didn’t.
My sister and I used to hold bug penny bouts.
We had a pet funnel web spider that we’d pit against pillbugs, grasshoppers, caterpillars, and other spider comestables.
I’m thinking we could pit mammoth against mammoth, something like “Ultimate Fighter” with the beasties.
Only we coffee up one of them.
And I want a wool cardigan.
It's the wooly ones who are coming back, right?
I don't know. I imagine the whole ridin' him thing would have him pretty pissed off by itself!
It's the wooly ones who are coming back, right?
I'll ride the sumbitch and I'll even barbecue it, but I draw the line at shavin' it!
I'll bet you might be able to squeeze a couple pair of socks out of one of them critters, too.
Just gimme the pelt. I can carpet half of the Westchase area with it.
Aw, heck, I can get a whole bureau full of sock drawers out of that.
But Eaker won't shave it.
Dang it.
I have the idea that brontosaurus ribs were responsible for tipping over the Flintstones’ car every week.
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