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Extinct Mammoth, Coming To a Zoo Near You
Techmeology writes "Professor Akira Iritani of Kyoto University plans to use recent developments in cloning technology to give life to the currently extinct woolly mammoth. Although earlier efforts in the 1990s were unsuccessful due to damage caused by extreme cold, Professor Iritani believes he can use a technique pioneered by Dr Wakayama (who successfully cloned a frozen mouse) to overcome this obstacle. This technique will enable Professor Iritani to identify viable cell nuclei, and transfer them to egg cells of an African elephant which will carry the mammoth for a 600 day pregnancy."
If my theory is right and there is an ingredient in Mammoth meat that makes our species sane!
I hold very few opinions. I hold information based on observation and fact. If you wish to disagree, please use facts.
It seems a little strange to me that so many sciency-types tend to like Jurassic Park. I mean, yes it does have dinosaurs and a girl who loves Unix.
OTOH: "Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
So, in the end, the scientists are blamed for the whole thing. Not the person who decided to make it a theme park. Not the person who disabled all of the security. Not even the person whose job it was to think: "What if all of our security goes?"
The scientists.
Do you think they'll have nut obsessed rodents?
As much as squirrels and others love nuts, I think some crows in Japan deserve credit for doing something different with nuts. NHK (via Mhz WorldView) reports that birds have learned not only to drop nuts in the roadway where cars break them open, but to do it at intersections where the traffic gets stopped so they can pick up the pieces.
PBS also reported it:
http://www.pbs.org/lifeofbirds/brain/index.html