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Mammoths May Be Roaming the World in Five Years

CommanderFrank

CommanderFrank

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Nope, not another sequel to the Jurassic Park franchise, but real flesh and blood clones that would make even John Hammond proud. Japanese scientists are working with new DNA recovered in Siberia that is capable of producing a Wooly Mammoth clone. Maybe Velociraptors will be next. :D
 
Mammoths would be neat but, I want Harts and Dodos back. They taste better.
 
Bring back the aurochs, bovines are much more important to our civilization than elephants.
And we unfortunately exterminated them not that long ago.
 
Total science fiction, Wooly Mammoths couldn't survive today. Their digestive tract isn't make for today's food sources and evolution would need thousands of years to reprogram them.
 
??? they are herbivores, I don't think grass and leaves have changed that much

we didn't finish them off that long ago
 
Thuleman said:
Total science fiction, Wooly Mammoths couldn't survive today. Their digestive tract isn't make for today's food sources and evolution would need thousands of years to reprogram them.
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Plants are plants, grass is grass. My main concern is temperature....weren't these things living in super cold climates? I hope the Japs have a BIG refrigerator.

But in reality, these guys are just practicing for when they have to bring whales back from extinction. They gotta have that blubber and all...:rolleyes:
 
They need to bring back the thylacine, as modern humans are to blame for that loss.
 
Bad ConNecTioN said:
Plants are plants, grass is grass. My main concern is temperature....weren't these things living in super cold climates? I hope the Japs have a BIG refrigerator.

But in reality, these guys are just practicing for when they have to bring whales back from extinction. They gotta have that blubber and all...:rolleyes:
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The hard part is getting a pure blood clone alive and healthy....climate control and diet control can be easily manufactured. Though like you said, I doubt the nutritional value of plants has changed much in the past..3,000 - 5,000 years or so when they were alive.

I actually think that if we became really adept at creating these things and the meat was comparable in taste to beef that it could be the cow's replacement...imagine how much more meat you could probably get off one of those things.
 
USMCGrunt said:
The hard part is getting a pure blood clone alive and healthy....climate control and diet control can be easily manufactured. Though like you said, I doubt the nutritional value of plants has changed much in the past..3,000 - 5,000 years or so when they were alive.

I actually think that if we became really adept at creating these things and the meat was comparable in taste to beef that it could be the cow's replacement...imagine how much more meat you could probably get off one of those things.
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actually I think efficiency wise it goes the other way, you get more meat per unit forage with a smaller critter
 
Anyone remember the episode of "Northern Exposure" where Dr. Joel Fleischman finds a perfectly preserved Woolly Mammoth thawing in a snow bank.

Thrilled to finally have something of culture happening in his remote Alaskan village he calls for representatives from a major museum to examine his discovery.

Upon arriving at the clearing all the scientists discover is snow mobile tracks and heavy drag marks. They follow them through the woods to a small cabin, they look past the man who answers the door and there are freshly trimmed 4"x4" mammoth steaks hanging from the cabin's rafters. :D
 
This is a terrible idea. Those things rip me and my friend a new one, even when we're both wearing Dragon Bone Armor. I can't imagine what they'd do to a few frail Japanese scientists.
 
SCSI-Terminator said:
Lawl.... the first thing I thought of was "I wonder if they taste good?"
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They were so good, it was to die for...I mean to extinct for...i wonder what that discussion was about, "Well...this is our last mammoth team. Let's all enjoy it while it lasts..."
 
Lith1um said:
Upon arriving at the clearing all the scientists discover is snow mobile tracks and heavy drag marks. They follow them through the woods to a small cabin, they look past the man who answers the door and there are freshly trimmed 4"x4" mammoth steaks hanging from the cabin's rafters. :D
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From what I've read, thawed mammoth meat instantly begins to rot and smells horrible.
 
I hope the Night's Watch can guard the wildings on the wall with their mammoths.
 
Great news for a zoo. Because I doubt there is any place left on earth that they could be reintroduced into the wild with any chance of long term survival without supplanting the current wildlife, or running afoul of humans.
 
Are they going to make a little animated DNA cartoon to visualize the cloning process like in Jurassic Park? I'd be super disappointed if they didn't make a science ride to showcase that.
 
Thuleman said:
Total science fiction, Wooly Mammoths couldn't survive today. Their digestive tract isn't make for today's food sources and evolution would need thousands of years to reprogram them.
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They seemed to really like Birch trees. Last time I checked, Birch trees are still around.
 
If they do find a way to "recreate" them, they'll probably be really sickly, stuck in some zoo where kids can tap on the glass and annoy them all day.
 
TheCapulet said:
This is a terrible idea. Those things rip me and my friend a new one, even when we're both wearing Dragon Bone Armor. I can't imagine what they'd do to a few frail Japanese scientists.
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All you have to do for safety is make a small hut with a doorway and a large bag of iron arrows! :p
 
Mammoths, Giants, Sabre Cats. This will be fun. Mammoth steak, yum.
 
I'll take the Buffalo... no, wait, I'll have the Mammoth burger please.
 
This is one of the most exciting pieces of news Ive read in a while.
I hope that our current batch of scientist in the world today have gathered all and any dna or materials they need from all known specimens on this planet. It would be nice to be able to re-create any animals we lose.
Other than fire ants.
 
When can I get these? :D

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Since some asshole Vietnamese poachers just killed off the last of the Western Black Rhino's, we should probably bring those back first. Generally as a rule we should maybe look at returning species that we had an active hand in wiping out instead of the ones that nature killed off.
 
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