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Extinct Ibex Resurrected By Cloning
The Telegraph is reporting that for the first time an extinct animal has been brought back via cloning. The Pyrenean ibex, a type of mountain goat, was declared officially extinct in 2000, but thanks to preserved skin samples scientists were able to insert that DNA into eggs from domestic goats to clone a female Pyrenean ibex. While the goat didn't survive long due to lung defects this gives scientists hopes that it will be possible to resurrect extinct species from frozen tissue. "Using techniques similar to those used to clone Dolly the sheep, known as nuclear transfer, the researchers were able to transplant DNA from the tissue into eggs taken from domestic goats to create 439 embryos, of which 57 were implanted into surrogate females. Just seven of the embryos resulted in pregnancies and only one of the goats finally gave birth to a female bucardo, which died seven minutes later due to breathing difficulties, perhaps due to flaws in the DNA used to create the clone."
We can just patch the damaged or missing segments with frog DNA...
Nature will find a way.
Did we learn nothing from Jurassic Park?
Help! I'm a slashdot refugee.
I won't goat you, I herd it's dead Jim.
Ewe!
Yo Grark
Canadian Bred with American Buttering
Pyrenean Ibex extinct... again.
I'm thinking Jurassic Pork. Bring back some extinct hog species and grill 'em up!
MRSH-Recording device, corned beef sandwich with kraut, seafaring bird, and the foamy top of a beverage.
1 dinosaur, please!
Steal my band's record! Seriously,
But they are off the menu...
no, no, no, no, no!
try this :
"This just in, Pyrenean Ibex still extinct." </Chevy Chase>
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
better trademark the name 'Mammoth Burgers' and 'Mammoth Steaks' now then so your grandkids or great-grandkids will be wealthy!
Mammoth fail. Tusk. Tusk. Tusk.
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The normal method fails here, after all they're _goats_
Yeah, but that's because they taste too much like spotted owl.
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
What about the Spam, Spam, Spam, Bald Eagle and Spam?
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I'm still waiting for them to do this with the wooly mammoth; logic dictates that if my ancestors hunted this species to extinction, they must have been REALLY tasty!
Logic dictates nothing of the sort. It could be that mammoth meat tasted terrible, but a mammoth tusk was the standard price for a blowjob.
Ahh - My eye!
The doctor said I'm not supposed to get Slashdot in it!
That is one Intrepid Ibex for sure. Maybe they spliced in some penguin DNA? *wink*