Scientists to World: We're Going to Finally Clone that Woolly Mammoth We've Been Talking About

And how many times have they claimed they were about to do this? Just look at the related articles side bar. I was hoping to see stuff that was happening now.

HELL YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I WANT MAMMOTH!!!!!

It just dosn't seem right, almost cruel. But I'm not going to lie. I would, like to see one first hand.

i don't want to see that walking around in my backyard. yeah but scientists are probably just going take it and take a million tests on that poor thing.

This would be such an epic thing to do tests on. And I would do my best to see this thing. But Im not so sure that I want this thing in the wild.

-sevykeble
the future is happening so fast that it is now.

Makes me wonder if the immune system wouldn't just go haywire and not be able to fight off pathogens in a different evolutionary time period 10,000 years later.

But what will the "creationists" say? We will be creating something from a point in time before anything existed!!!

but I guess they would say that god created this DNA for us to find and create a LIVE mammoth to walk the earth for the FIRST time. before now it has only existed as bones and frozen remains!

So when will there be enough of them to start seeing them on the menu @ a Fuddrucker's!

i really hope its true this time. they have the technology to do it. heck they could have done it 10 years ago.

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I want a T-rex and Raptor in my local zoo next! Don`t leave the gate open!

Why mammoth??? I think we as humanity should concentrate on bringing back animals we destroyed recently. Animals like thylacine....

It would be so cool to bring back say 1000 or more and breed them. I like to see a herd of Mammoths.

Then I want to see on the menu Mammoth steaks and so on!
Yummy! CHOMP!

My only question is how are they going to breath? With the very slight decrease in oxygen levels, and the increase of pollutants..... This is a Very large mammal, will they even grow to the size they once were?

@ inaka_rob
look we don't deny the existance of dinosaurs, mammoths, or other prehistoric animals. different creationists have different ideas. for example carbon dating might be wrong. new science shows that while carbon dating is based on the idea that nuclear decay is a prosses uneffcted by anything it actually speeds up and then returns to normal during both solar flairs and when the earth is closer to the sun.

@scurvydog2

"... carbon dating might be wrong ..."

Yeah, but it's probably right. I think it's dangerous to base an entire belief system on the possibility that a technology that has been in use for over 60 years *might* be wrong.

God and good science are not mutually exclusive.

All the concern about oxygen levels, polutants and illnesses, please understand that while being gestated you share the blood and therefore antibodies of the host mother. So the DNA will be mammoth, the antibodies it needs to survive will be provided by the host elephant.

What I wonder is, if elephants do have a genetic memory system as is believed possible, what kind of shock is this radically changed world going to have on the mammoth at a emotional and psychological level?

Being a "herd" animal, I think it's pretty safe to clone, the idea of cloning a predatory animal is just daft however.

Playing Devil's Advocate since 1978

"The only constant in the universe is change"
-Heraclitus of Ephesus 535 BC - 475 BC

Right on CodeZero about the mothers antibodies. As for the genetic memory thing, one issue might be that it could recognize man as a predator. And as for cloning herd animals, I'm with you on that. Cloning a Sabretooth? Real bad idea.

hell yah, clone all the real nasty ones that like meat, way too many people, cull the herd!

Why not the predators? I mean, sure, you wouldn't want to place saber tooth tigers in downtown, but why not in a sufficiently isolated and access-controlled area? You'd want to limit its range since it isn't a species natural to the area. But that goes for the Mammoth too. Don't want the new species to edge out the established ones.

How would these ancient Mammoths breath coming from an ancient rich oxygen environment to a lesser oxygen environment? I suspect they will live and die, adapt to breath in the same way humans do, living in all kinds of places on earth, in all types of altitudes.

If scientist do bring back the Mammoth, they may need to bring back many, maybe thousands for the few that will adapt to our current oxygen environment. Or perhaps, the ancient Mammoth maybe highly adaptable and we just do not know it yet the extremes of its adaptability.

Next the Russians will attempt to clone another extinct animal- honest elections.
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For all the people nervous about cloning sabretooths...They're extinct for a reason. Those big teeth probably weren't a huge help. Modern lions and tigers and bears have "just right" sized teeth and are just as big a threat as sabretooths would be. And none of them are as dangerous as the animal at the top of the food chain - Chuck Norris.

mmmm never tried mammoth meat..... ^^

@radmilo
seriously, if we can clone that thing we can clone everything else at that point..

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I can't wait to try on a woolly mammoth coat. Mmmmmm Cozy.

Has anyone else seen Jurassic Park?! OK, so a mammal is not dangerous, but what if it doesn't stop there? What if, scientists decide that they are then interested in carnavors, reptiles, or other predators that could possibly be a threat. I am just saying as long as clonning does not knock us down the food chain, then i have no problem with it. Also remeber though you are bringing an extinct species back, PETA is gonna be all over that shit! Damn animal rights! Then again does anywhere but America care about animals?

@ItsNotReal

Jurrassic park is not going to happen

-sevykeble
the future is happening so fast that it is now.

*begins to design anti-T rex weaponry*
here comes Jurassic park.

There is a reason the Mammoth went extinct in the first place. they don't belong in our time. The world was a lot different back then and even the foods the mammoth were accustomed to probably are extinct as well. Plus, hasn't anybody seen Jurassic Park?! This seems like a bad idea altogether. Once we start bringing back extinct animals we put our own species at risk.

@ItsNotReal:

Just want to make sure you understand that Jurassic Park was a work of fiction, not a documentary. You can't make any conclusions based on the content.

Also - if mammals aren't dangerous, try petting a tiger. (Humans are mammals too, by the way. I'd say we're pretty dangerous.)

I might start a company, say Ingen, one mammoth on order, now the rest. Oh and the Island.

But seriously, I don't see the issue, this thing will be fine. I doubt they will be able to breed like they did in the Jurassic period, and this mammoth can chat it up with normal elephants, it will be like the talk of the party.

I do hope there isn't any health issues for the poor creature once created, hate to think it start dying a slow painful death due to some genetic issues. That would kinda make it a tad wrong but then again its not something you can foresee.

Also clearly this type of thing will help bring in revenue to fund bringing back extinct species that which us nasty humans are responsible for destroying. That is money, something that is hard to find in science!!! They should clone a t-rex next, that will bring in all the cash they need, its a sad fact of today's society.

A Big Game Hunters wet dream!

@Sbernk "Once we start bringing back extinct animals we put our own species at risk."

I don't think they plan on repopulating the earth with wooly mammoths, I think we'll be alright....

Like a question raised in the movie Jurassic Park
"the question is not can we do it? but rather should we?

Hitler wanted to clone blond blue eyed Germans .

Amazing, I wonder if they want to cross it with elephants? Would it be gentle and tame like the Asian Elephant, or intellegent and wild like the African elephant?

Nobody mentions whether it will be a he or she. Or are they doing the Noah's Ark thing and cloning a pair?