Extinct Woolly Mammoth's DNA Mapped....

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http://www.livescience.com/animals/0811 ... h-dna.html

One day we might be able to revive some of these creatures that once roamed the earth..and maybe not. But would it be a good idea do you think?

Who would want a Pleistocene Park?

I'd be curious....

interesting idea, but mapping, and producing a working 'model' are 2 different things. Still, it would be an interesting thing to see...

I already knew because I,like all my intellectually affluent brethren;get my news from A nightly dose of Steven Colbert.

Snuffleupagus! Well isn't he a Wolly Mammoth? Or something to that extent?

No one really knows how the wooly mammoth became extinct. Some scholars even theorize that early man may have been responsible for their extinction. They have found many ancient pictographs depicting the wooly mammoth being hunted!!

This is pretty cool! But, i'm not sure they should clone it.

Pulling the woolly topic

Apparently the last woolly mammoth died out at the time of the early Roman Empire, according to research. I read this in National Geographic in the October 2008 issue, the same issue that had a big spread on Neanderthals, who apparently hunted these beasts.

I think any mammoth that would be ressurected might have some elephant DNA because of gaps and because an elephant would have to be a surrogate.

I just hope sabre tooth cats are not going to be next.

^Now that would be something...a saber tooth tiger. Only thing is, their teeth were so big that it made it hard for them to tear into their prey. This is one of the problems they had with those big teeth of theirs LOL. I wouldn't say they were more or less dangerous than a tiger.

As for cloning, anyone remember Dolly the sheep?

She died just after 6 years of living from lung disease...

Scientists are on a tight budget since this type of project is not only controversial but that it seems many animals that're cloned at birth are doomed from the start. They don't understand yet the reasons behind these maladies such as prematurity or other physiological aspects that are effects from cloning.

Personally I'd hate to see these kinds of experiments go bad on an animal yet without experiments how can one know?

I see pros and cons in this controvery. Nevertheless, it'd be exciting to see an animal come back from a thousand years ago. Maybe like LPP stated just to see the ones that were killed off by man than by natural selection.

i once bought a vile of wooly mammoth hair.

^How I'd like to get my hands on some prehistoric creature's hair. It would almost feel like being close to real live animal only from another time!!

I bet that cost a good penny.

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