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Baby Mammoth Found Intact

Posted by samzenpus on from the pleistocene-park dept.

knoll99 writes "Scientists unveiled the discovery Wednesday of a baby mammoth found in the permafrost of north-west Siberia. The remains of the six-month-old female mammoth were discovered in a remarkable state of preservation on the Yamal peninsula of Russia in May, a Reuters report said. The specimen is believed to be the best of its kind to date."

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  1. Tissue and fluids? by An+Ominous+Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The Jurassic Park-esque cloning talk is definitely going to be the focus of most of the discussion, but have any of the articles mentioned how well the tissues, organs, and fluids are preserved? This seems like an extraordinary chance to find hard evidence on what caused their extinction.

    1. Re:Tissue and fluids? by Rude+Turnip · · Score: 5, Funny

      More importantly...will it blend?

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    2. Re:Tissue and fluids? by sentientbeing · · Score: 5, Funny

      Well you dont get rarer than extinct..

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  2. Re:Go well with by painworthy · · Score: 5, Funny

    In other news, Rosie O' Donnell still reported to be missing.

    Criminologists believe that she may have been abducted, but a truck powerful enough to hold such capacity is not known to man.

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  3. What the article didn't mention... by heretic108 · · Score: 5, Funny
    ...was the discovery, 5 metres away from the mammoth, of an inscribed granite slate. Archaeologists were set to work on translating the inscriptions, and came up with a bulletin with the headline:

    Climate Change A "Myth"
    Coming Ice Age a "Fabrication"
    -- Energy Company CEO
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    -- In the beginning was the WORD, and the WORD was UNSIGNED, and the main(){} was without form and void...
  4. not really by AlgorithMan · · Score: 5, Funny

    Baby Mammoth Found Intact
    except that it's dead...
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  5. Re:God must have put it there by Mr.+Lwanga · · Score: 5, Funny

    TFA has a typo, its 4000 years old not 40,000. The mammoth will soon take its rightful place next to the Jesus horses at the Creation Museum.

  6. Re:They will come to us! by Kadin2048 · · Score: 5, Funny

    The next intelligent species will find us and be amazed at how many human corpses they've found lying around next to an artifact with what seems to be a mice-shaped object in their hand. It might take them a while to guess what we were doing,

    I think what it has in its other hand will be a significant clue.

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