Woolly mammoth to be brought back to life from cloned bone marrow 'within five years'

A less healthy "wholly mammoth"? Than an extinct one? Hmmm.... boggles the mind.

Jurassic Park in the making. Sounds exciting, but the day will come when dinosaurs will roam and rule the planet once again, and we will be their appetizers, desserts and main course meals.

But then, maybe it is our turn to go extinct next- so...

I'm all for saber-toothed cats next!

harder to find them frozen into the tundra.

I'm all for saber-toothed cats next!

YAY!!!
:D

Here kitty, kitty, kitty.

RaisedByWolves: I think wolves like to hunt many animals, does this include the CAT family? LOL.

I'm all for saber-toothed cats next!

LOL, I love my kitties! YUM YUM YUM I was mostly thinking that few people will feel the wrath of the Jurassic Park mentality with the cloning of a woolly mammoth; but, the saber-tooth cat is able to destroy the lab and this idiocy with it!

I'm all for saber-toothed cats next!

Well, there is that possibility as they both lived during the same time period. I am guessing of all of the STT bones they have pulled out of the La Brea Tar Pits, there must be some DNA left.

Unfortunately, STT didn't live in the northern climes the Wooly Mammoths did, so we won't find any frozen DNA.

No woolly mammoths at The Brea Pits, but mammoth and STTs were both there. I wonder if that dip in a petroleum pool saved the DNA? And I'm serious about that question because my life sciences classes were so basic and so long ago...

Oh yes indeed. Did you ever see the elephant habitat at the San Diego Zoo? My wife just stood there fascinated as the pile of dung behind one of them grew and grew. Finally, she turned to me when it was about four feet high and said, "Isn't it ever going to stop?"

Ought to be a very interesting result.

-but can't they turn all that Mammoth dung into cleaner, useful energy.

Anyone see the article I put up at THE INVISIBLE ROADSIDE GARDEN, on the bio-fueled truck? This would provide a LOT of bio-fuel.... http://gtodd52.newsvine.com/_news/2011/11/13/8784684-green-transportation

A few years ago, we tried to clone a wooly bully. Something went terribly wrong and we ended up with a bird with the word.

Is that where Big Bird came from backroads? I've always wondered.

A few years ago, we tried to clone a wooly bully. Something went terribly wrong and we ended up with a bird with the word.

Interesting,

I hadn't heard about the bird.

apparently Matty told Hatty, but nobody told me.

Well, The Bird is the Word, but I prefer the Woolly Bully!

They can be sheared!

LOL NAKED "Not so Wooly" mammoth!!! Ummm, wouldn't that be an elephant?!

Right, the mammoth will just LOVE global warming.......

but the barber shops will love all the business...

lol

Meanwhile - the United Sheep and Wool Producers lobby begins to speak out against this scientific endeavor.

Yes!

Hey...leave those mammoth alone!

Well, since horsemeat is now on the table... Actually, early man hunted those Mammoths, with spears, and they were food. However, I doubt we would use ALL of the animal, and would waste much...

How about beans? Everyone likes beans.

Yum. Mammoth and beans. Should work just like the beef and beans eaten so much in the old west (for a demonstration of how well that worked, see the campfire scene in Blazing Saddles).

The question is: Why? What purpose would a woolly mammoth serve today? Will they be farmed for their meat or fur?

The real purpose in doing this is to actually try and find out how they behaved and survived. Other than that, these people that are now playing god will one day regret creating a beast such as this that will cost a fortune to accommodate and to feed. So raise then, kill them, and then feed them to the human savages if the wooly Mammoth refuses to behave.

One Mammoth burger and a large order of saber tooth tiger fires on the side, and one large coconut drink.

Woolly Mammoth Fart Levels Kinki University and Areas of Higashi-Osaka District: Film at 11.

But, in order to discover how woolly mammoths behaved and survived, wouldn't they need to be in their original environment?

Read Jean Auel's books on THE EARTH CHILDREN SERIES., etc. She did heavy research before writing the series.

I love those books! My point, however, is that scientists wouldn't be getting a completely accurate idea of mammoth behavior in our world- because it is so different from the time of the mammoths.

Excellent and valid point Dani. Curiosity is a wonderful thing but sometimes it can be carried to extremes. LOL The real question is "of what value would any of their findings have for our present day society and flora and fauna?" As you point out when taken out of context it probably would not be relevant.

I wonder just how many times man, in his ignorance, fooled around with Mother Nature only to have his actions come back and bought him in the butt?

FINutmegger my guess would be 'almost every time.' LOL In the universe everything requires balance. When ever we tinker with something we invariably create some kind of an imbalance. That ultimately has adverse effects that may not show up for many years. Humans are very short sighted.

For example our concept of using dams for irrigation and flood control seemed to be very logical and beneficial. However no one considered the long term effects such as salinization of the soil from too much irrigation and loss of fish population because of messing up the migratory habits of the fish when spawning. I am not saying that we should never try to improve things but I do suggest that some thought be put into our efforts with a very strong consideration of the natural balance of all things involved.

In the game of poker sometimes you have to just take the risk because you have become 'pot committed.' Similarly once we have committed to a particular evolutionary direction in our society we must then follow through with it or it has all been a waste of time and money. In this case the die was cast for this creature long ago and I can see no long term benefits of resurrecting it as a living species again.

I am not saying that we should never try to improve things but I do suggest that some thought be put into our efforts with a very strong consideration of the natural balance of all things involved.

Spot on! Whenever I think about our unnatural impositions upon nature I invariably think of the Peruvian Incas and their hundreds of years old irrigation system, and aqueducts, somehow designed and built as a complement to nature and still in effective use today.

We are so short-sighted most of the time, FIN. First Nations have a philosophy of adopting some program or law only after considering how it affects 7 generations!

I wonder just how many times man, in his ignorance, fooled around with Mother Nature only to have his actions come back and bought him in the butt?

Counting or not counting Twilight Zone episodes?

Well, since horsemeat is now on the table...

Horse meat has ALWAYS been on the table, it's just that in the U.S. horses are cute pets and you don't eat pets. Europe, different story!

Man is a part of nature.

yes but you know what i meant. I meant not due to sport hunting as opposed to hunting for food etc

There is some evidence that humans may have been responsible to mammoth's extinction in the first place; maybe we can UNdo some of the damage we've done...

good point

I meant not due to sport hunting as opposed to hunting for food etc

It may interest you to know that sport hunting has never caused the extinction of any species.

Ummm......what about the Thylacine?
(Tasmanian Tiger)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thylacine

Not sport hunting Abby. They were, like the Wolf, considered a pest and a danger to cattle. The difference is that mostly the Wolves were poisoned off rather than shot.

But it was MAN that killed them off, in their own habitat.
Humans have a lot to answer for.
:(

Abby, the question was strictly confined to sport hunting, which is heavily regulated to ensure that extinctions don't happen. Whether we should kill off competitors for our food supply or those species that are otherwise dangerous to humans is an entirely different question, which may have a completely different answer.

Modern hunting is very responsible... when there is responsible oversight at least. Hunters are some of the staunchest conservationists.

But in days past, things have indeed been overhunted to extinction/near extinction. The buffalo is an obvious one. Dodo birds as well. It's when you combine our arrogance, with a disrespect for the land - that you get things like this.

Real hunters have nothing but respect for the land that supports them, it's the posers and trophy hunters who are the problem.

But in days past, things have indeed been overhunted to extinction/near extinction. The buffalo is an obvious one. Dodo birds as well.

But Shuklack, those too were not sport hunting. That was commercial hunting for meat and hides. Sport hunters were among those who put a stop to it.

Me too.

Your exactly right and at the same time, exactly wrong. The same curiosity study could be said of the evasive, distructive, and over consuming being, mankind!

The same curiosity study could be said of the evasive, distructive, and over consuming being, mankind!

Ivorybill,

That same study is being done regarding humans and it's pretty far advanced. It's called Behavioral Psychology.

shepherd0886:, Well said and on the mark too IMO! There is a reason for all actions and activities on the earth and man in his ignorance simply fails to either understand, or see, that some of his actions, to satisfy his "curiosity", are dangerous to us, as a species, in the animal kingdom, beyond measure. Your analogy to Frankenstein is truly on the money.

Anyone for frankenwool?

Well...that same theory could apply to our abilities to bring something back, that before was not cognitively possible, yet through time came possible. One day , I suspect we will be able to create life from scratch. From the dusts of Earth, and if that comes to light, then it could be said by some: it was meant to be.

That's a good question...........just "What" are the limits that were genectically induced by evolution, and or were limited by a devine sorce???........Time will answer, that, and many more questions we ponder now.

According to the current law, never.

Yhea...and people make Buffalo Bill into some sort of hero....when in reality, he was a butcher. We call our way of life, civilization, yet to all others in Nature, our 7 billion, we must surely appear as if we are a desease.