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2011-01-18 Science & Technology
Researchers aim to resurrect mammoth in five years
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Posted by Fred 2011-01-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11123 views ]  Top

#1 

Hope these guys know what they are getting into here.
Posted by Ebbomp Borgia8301 2011-01-18 00:12||   2011-01-18 00:12|| Front Page Top

#2 We're working on it.

Interesting that this is in Non-WOT. Seems a rather limited view if this succeeds.
Posted by Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division 2011-01-18 01:11||   2011-01-18 01:11|| Front Page Top

#3 Japanese researchers will launch a project this year to resurrect the long-extinct mammoth

Can giant, city stomping, lizards be far behind?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-01-18 02:38||   2011-01-18 02:38|| Front Page Top

#4 "After the mammoth is born, we will examine its ecology "

Huh?

The world it inhabited is gone, how can you even attempt this?

This is only the worst of several lines in this article which are nonsensical and terrible science.

Concept is interesting, but this article was written by someone who hasn't even taken Bio 101.
Posted by no mo uro 2011-01-18 06:33||   2011-01-18 06:33|| Front Page Top

#5 Bad idea.

As soon as it's 'born' the environmentalist and GreenPeace will declare it an endangered species and want to kick all the Japaneses out from from Japan to make room for its 'natural habitat'.
Posted by CrazyFool 2011-01-18 08:03||   2011-01-18 08:03|| Front Page Top

#6 "After the mammoth is born, we will examine its ecology and genes to study why the species became extinct and other factors."

Not since the the last Ice Age has man asked and received the answer.

Whats for dinner?

Mammoth Steaks

Yeah, Whales are just too hard to get now a days.
Posted by Goodluck 2011-01-18 08:21||   2011-01-18 08:21|| Front Page Top

#7 Good idea.

Once it's demonstrated that a species can be resurrected, then species can't be pressured into extinction, but rather 'put on hold'. That places the whole 'endangered' legal game out of business. You want two dozen, coming right up.
Posted by Procopius2k 2011-01-18 08:23||   2011-01-18 08:23|| Front Page Top

#8 After the wooly mammoth, Godzilla. Then we're really screwed.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2011-01-18 08:32||   2011-01-18 08:32|| Front Page Top

#9 Some interesting background. First of all, bringing back the mammoth is sort of a holy grail activity in science, and both the Japanese and Russians are willing to spend the bills to make it happen.

And before this breakthrough, they were still willing to go ahead with a much more difficult and expensive process that could have taken several generations to produce a pure bred mammoth from an elephant-mammoth cross breed.

And, on spec, the Russians have already created a "mammoth preserve" in Siberia, that is their best guess of what mammoths would like.

As far as dinosaurs go, the discovery of fossilized soft tissues inside bone a while back has resulted in the possibility that while that DNA cannot be used, it can at least possibly be mapped, then reconstructed from living reptile and even bird DNA, a bit at a time.

Of course, some wit suggested that if we could build a herd of a few thousand velociraptors, then we could designate Zimbabwe as their preserve, and parachute them in.
Posted by  Anonymoose 2011-01-18 09:43||   2011-01-18 09:43|| Front Page Top

#10 Of course, some wit suggested that if we could build a herd of a few thousand velociraptors, then we could designate ZimbabweIran, Afghanistan and Pakistan as their preserve, and parachute them in.

There, Ask not what your velociraptors can do for you, but what you can do for your velociraptors.

Posted by Goodluck 2011-01-18 09:54||   2011-01-18 09:54|| Front Page Top

#11 Mitochondria come from the mother.
Will this clone have elephant or mammoth mitochondria?
Posted by Water Modem 2011-01-18 10:33||   2011-01-18 10:33|| Front Page Top

#12 Researchers aim to resurrect mammoth in five years

Thereby finally giving Rosie O'Donnell a suitable partner.
Posted by gorb 2011-01-18 10:58||   2011-01-18 10:58|| Front Page Top

#13 Hey! Even lonely Wooly Mammoths have their standards!
Posted by CrazyFool 2011-01-18 11:58||   2011-01-18 11:58|| Front Page Top

#14 "If a cloned embryo can be created, we need to discuss, before transplanting it into the womb, how to breed (the mammoth) and whether to display it to the public," Iritani said.

"After the mammoth is born, we will examine its ecology and genes to study why the species became extinct and other factors."

Any number of PhD dissertations here. Your tax dollar at work.
Posted by KBK 2011-01-18 14:09||   2011-01-18 14:09|| Front Page Top

#15 Has Michael Moore died?
Posted by Chaising the Really Smart3203 2011-01-18 16:06||   2011-01-18 16:06|| Front Page Top

#16 "...a huge woolly mammal believed to have died out with the last Ice Age."

Either that, or they're really, REALLY good at hiding.
Posted by mojo 2011-01-18 17:12||   2011-01-18 17:12|| Front Page Top

#17 Either that, or they're really, REALLY good at hiding.

That would explain Michael and Rosie.
Posted by CrazyFool 2011-01-18 17:16||   2011-01-18 17:16|| Front Page Top

#18 Anything to get helen thomas back into the spotlight, unbelievable.
Posted by swksvolFF 2011-01-18 17:32||   2011-01-18 17:32|| Front Page Top

#19 #12: Researchers aim to resurrect mammoth in five years
Thereby finally giving Rosie O'Donnell a suitable partner.
Posted by: gorb||

"later research showed the mating was unsuccessful as the Mammoth's olfactory senses were overcome by the unbelievable stench"
Posted by Frank G 2011-01-18 18:44||   2011-01-18 18:44|| Front Page Top

#20 Japanese salivating over a new red meat?
Posted by Water Modem 2011-01-18 19:59||   2011-01-18 19:59|| Front Page Top

#21 WM: A lot of people have speculated that the woolly mammoth died out precisely because it was tasty, slow and not overly hard to kill, and would provide a LOT of food for a human tribe. And thus it became a simple equation of humans wanting to eat more, faster, than mammoths could reproduce.

The reason this fate didn't befall the elephant was, as the theory goes, because it was faster, more energetic, and if people got too near it would attack them. African elephants, especially, shouldn't be messed with unless you have big guns, because they have little patience for trifling humans.

Indian elephants are more mellow.
Posted by  Anonymoose 2011-01-18 20:30||   2011-01-18 20:30|| Front Page Top

#22 Mitochondria are likely very similar across the genus, assuming they have a common one - likely all from a common ancestor. I think that's the case for hominids.
Posted by OldSpook 2011-01-18 21:43||   2011-01-18 21:43|| Front Page Top

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