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A Siberian expedition finds a well-preserved woolly mammoth. When scientists investigate, blood comes running out, lending hope to an ambitious cloning project.
When it comes to cloning extinct critters, it seems most people are holding out more hope for re-creating woolly mammoths than building "Jurassic Park." The researchers involved in a mammoth-rebuilding project are probably pretty excited about a recent find by Russian scientists who uncovered a fairly fresh new mammoth.
A paleontological expedition from the Research Institute of Applied Ecology of the North, North-Eastern Federal University, and the Russian Geographical Society discovered a female mammoth in a remarkably good state of preservation in the Novosibirsk archipelago in Siberia. North-Eastern Federal University has partnered with controversial South Korean cloning scientist Hwang Woo-Suk (who was found to have faked data involving a procedure to clone human embryonic stem cells) for a mammoth-cloning effort.
"The fragments of muscle tissues, which we've found out of the body, have a natural red color of fresh meat," says expedition leader Semyon Grigoriev. "The reason for such preservation is that the lower part of the body was underlying in pure ice, and the upper part was found in the middle of tundra."
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57586638-1/scientists-uncover-frozen-mammoth-blood-flows-out/
randome
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FSogol
(45,491 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)Nimajneb Nilknarf
(319 posts)What could possibly go wrong?
FSogol
(45,491 posts)randome
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FSogol
(45,491 posts)"One day, I hope to show you a monster-free Tokyo."
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)as their cloning expert I predict a lot of really pretty graphs and the eventual presentation of the mammoth looking a lot like a cow or something. He's a fraud who's actually never done anything of note.
PufPuf23
(8,791 posts)That would be awesome.
TrollBuster9090
(5,954 posts)RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)There's your female elephant!
calimary
(81,323 posts)Hilarious!!! The kind of comedy that pretty much writes itself. Not unlike Congress, but that's a tragi-comedy.
Brainstormy
(2,380 posts)isn't it? Or did the mammoths come AFTER Noah and all that? I went to a public school and was deprived of creation science.
chknltl
(10,558 posts)....never know, might resurrect the real Republican Party then they could send all the fakes packin....or off to jail.
(Well the OP is about extinct elephants isn't it?)
lindysalsagal
(20,692 posts)I'm sorry.
No, I'm not. :evil grin:
bvar22
(39,909 posts)Jesus rode Dinosaurs!!!!
OMG.... I'm having a moment of divine clarity!!!
Everybody Back Off and give me room to levitate!