Woolly Mammoth To Be Cloned
Lizzy_Sunflower
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Is this really a good idea?
Maybe I am the only one who saw Jurassic Park *shrugs*
http://news.discovery.com/animals/woolly-mammoth-cloned-111205.html
Maybe I am the only one who saw Jurassic Park *shrugs*
http://news.discovery.com/animals/woolly-mammoth-cloned-111205.html
Within five years, a woolly mammoth will likely be cloned, according to scientists who have just recovered well-preserved bone marrow in a mammoth thigh bone. Japan's Kyodo News first reported the find. You can see photos of the thigh bone at this Kyodo page.
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I think it will be awesome! Then one day they will clone dino's and Ill have pet t-rex and name him george, and hug him and pet him0
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The world's going to end anyway, why not go out with some live mammoths? :drinker:0
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Gonna have to get a bigger BBQ Grill.0
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Gonna have to get a bigger BBQ Grill.
My hero!0 -
I think it will be awesome! Then one day they will clone dino's and Ill have pet t-rex and name him george, and hug him and pet him
LOL I know, right??0 -
Gonna have to get a bigger BBQ Grill.
My hero!
Mammoth burgers!!!
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We had better step up our cloning efforts, because a lot of our food sources are going to go bye-bye. I think the perfect holiday gift for the Native Americans would be a million buffalo.0
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:laugh: :drinker:I think it will be awesome! Then one day they will clone dino's and Ill have pet t-rex and name him george, and hug him and pet him0 -
Except they will immediately be placed on that pesky "Endangered Species" list. Psh. As if.Gonna have to get a bigger BBQ Grill.0 -
Except they will immediately be placed on that pesky "Endangered Species" list. Psh. As if.Gonna have to get a bigger BBQ Grill.
If I may try to quote Ted Nugent: "Definition of an endangered animal is any animal within 50 yard of me and my bow."0 -
Except they will immediately be placed on that pesky "Endangered Species" list. Psh. As if.Gonna have to get a bigger BBQ Grill.
If I may try to quote Ted Nugent: "Definition of an endangered animal is any animal within 50 yard of me and my bow."
Niiice! :laugh:
BTW, I'm all for the cloning of that particular species. There is plenty of habitat available for a reasonable number of them, and it's not like their presumed diets are completely different from the available flora. If it doesn't work out, it's an easy enough problem to solve with a species of that size, and we'd be no worse off without them then than we are now. I would have a different opinion regarding insect, fish, or bird species in particular (or anything too small to hunt with a tank).0 -
Wooly Mammoths died out for a reason I think. No need to bring one back.
Maybe they are doing it to make a fur coat out of mammoth fur??0 -
I think it's stupid. There's so many other things that resources could be used for that would benefit.0
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Is this really a good idea?
Maybe I am the only one who saw Jurassic Park *shrugs*
http://news.discovery.com/animals/woolly-mammoth-cloned-111205.htmlWithin five years, a woolly mammoth will likely be cloned, according to scientists who have just recovered well-preserved bone marrow in a mammoth thigh bone. Japan's Kyodo News first reported the find. You can see photos of the thigh bone at this Kyodo page.
:laugh: Yeah, that was my first thought too, "did they not see Jurassic Park?" The dinosaurs became extinct for a reason.0 -
Gonna have to get a bigger BBQ Grill.
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Clone Amy Adams, so we can all have one.0
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I want one as a pet....do you think there is a waiting list?0
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The woolly mammoth just died out 10,000 years ago. We're still finding frozen mammoth-sicles in Greenland with intact DNA. They've even found a couple of males with viable sperm. And mammoths are close enough to modern elephants that a mom elephant can carry and deliver one, that's how they're going to do it.
This won't lead to Jurassic Park. A mammoth is just an elephant in a coat. The only real danger is Ted Nugent getting hot brass on some zoo patron. I have a couple of old burns on my neck and chest, that stuff hurts.0 -
I really don't know where I stand on this. I think being able to bring back a long extinct species would be an amazing accomplishment. BUT I also know the risks we take when we go too far tampering with mother nature. Even little things can have such a huge impact on an environment.
For evidence of the unintended problems you need only look at the rabbit problem in Australia. Hundreds of years ago some explorer thought it'd be good to have a few rabbits to hunt in Australia. Now they have to regularly organize massive hunts to try and kill as many as they can because their population exploded. Law of uninteded consequeces...0 -
I agree with you about invasive species, but It's hard to imagine wooly mammoths getting beyond the realm of Pandas. Rare curiosities in zoos. Gestation is 2 years, mom is the size of a dumptruck, they are large and delicious and they move slowly and can be taken down with a .50 cal, or enough rounds of .308 or 30-30. Hard to imagine Montana overtaken by marauding herds of mammoth (awesome as that would be,,, :laugh: ).
Zebra mussels OTOH,,, now those are a problem. As are housecats in Oz. Or coyotes in the midwest nowadays.0 -
I think it will end up being a good thing. Time will tell. But the human race keeps growing and growing, and there might be a time when cloning food sources are the only viable option. And I agree, the Wooly Mammoth only died out fairly recently, so the impact they would have is minimal. But if scientists wanted to start cloning T-Rex's if possilbe, what would the point be?0
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I agree with you about invasive species, but It's hard to imagine wooly mammoths getting beyond the realm of Pandas. Rare curiosities in zoos. Gestation is 2 years, mom is the size of a dumptruck, they are large and delicious and they move slowly and can be taken down with a .50 cal, or enough rounds of .308 or 30-30. Hard to imagine Montana overtaken by marauding herds of mammoth (awesome as that would be,,, :laugh: ).
Zebra mussels OTOH,,, now those are a problem. As are housecats in Oz. Or coyotes in the midwest nowadays.
And now I can't STOP imagining Montana being taken over by herds of mammoths! They really should do that. But I always think there's nothing going on in Montana and we should use it for entertainment purposes, so that's just me.0
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