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Cloneable Mammoth Cells Discovered in Russia

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the large-pieces-of-the-past dept.

orthogonal writes "Animal Planet reports, in this article, that 'Russian scientists said Wednesday that they've found living cells in a frozen ice-age mammoth' which could be cloned, and gestated in an elephant. I see a new Republican mascot in this."

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  1. Republicans by hackwrench · · Score: 4, Funny

    I know they're called the Grand Old Party, but that's rediculous.

  2. New mascot? by billn · · Score: 4, Funny

    I see a new Republican mascot in this.

    What? Bigger, stupider, but forgets nothing and thinks the best solution is to trample everything underfoot that can't be eaten? Oh, all that, AND a bad ass fro for the extra 'bad hair day' bonus?

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    1. Re:New mascot? by The+Analog+Kid · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yes a new kind of material for pimp suits, you know for those pimps alergic to mink fur and the such.

  3. Obligatory Southpark by trentfoley · · Score: 3, Funny

    "pig and elephant DNA just won't splice. Haven't you ever heard that song by Loverboy?"

  4. Save the woolly mammoth! by WolfWithoutAClause · · Score: 4, Funny

    You don't get a species any more endangered than the woolly mammoth!

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  5. Republican Mascot by Bowling+Moses · · Score: 4, Funny

    A stone-age mascot for stone-age thinking, or just another tribute to Strom Thurman?

    1. Re:Republican Mascot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Strom Thurman killed the last Mammoth didnt he?

  6. New republican mascot by Lord+Bitman · · Score: 3, Funny

    'cause we all know what republicans love: Russians!

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  7. On the mascot question by infonography · · Score: 2, Funny
    Seriously, it's both hairy and bloated. It's the perfect mascot for Demoplican or is it the Repulicrat party has there isn't a big difference between two of them now.

    Oh and it eats Greens. This joke is starting to get sick.

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  8. This guy shouldn't be cloning mammoths. by rollie_tyler · · Score: 5, Funny

    The team, led by Japan's Kazufumi Goto...

    I hear that Goto is considered harmful.

  9. Mmmmm! by floydigus · · Score: 2, Funny

    If anyone can get me a steak of this thing, I will pay handsomely.

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  10. I hope is a male Mammoth by mlush · · Score: 3, Funny

    Since they have somatic cells (ie normal cells not eggs or sperm) if they clone it into an elephant egg they will get an baby mammoth of the same gender and the original.

    I really doubt that mammoth and elephant are more cross fertile that horse/donkey and the offspring will be sterile which means that the only way to perpetuate the species is by continued cloning.... However if the mammoth is male it could be possible to deactivate the 'male gene' (SRY in humans) and create a female mammoth.

    I know a Song about that

    (to Home on the Range)
    Oh, give me a clone
    Of my own flesh and bone
    With the Y chromosome changed to X.
    And when she is grown,
    My very own clone,
    We'll be of the opposite sex.

    Chorus:
    Clone, clone of my own,
    With the Y chromosome changed to X.
    And when we're alone,
    Since her mind is my own,
    She'll be thinking of nothing but sex.