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South Korean Scientists Prepare To Clone Wooly Mammoth

Posted by timothy on from the looking-forward-to-the-sweaters dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Last year Russian researchers discovered a well-preserved mammoth thigh bone and announced plans to clone a mammoth from the bone marrow within — and they just signed a deal with South Korea's Sooam Biotech Research Foundation to bring the project to fruition. The Sooam scientists plan to implant the nucleus of a woolly mammoth cell into an elephant egg in order to to create a mammoth embryo, which would then be placed in an elephant womb. 'This will be a really tough job,' Soaam reasearcher Hwang In-Sung said, 'but we believe it is possible because our institute is good at cloning animals.'" Not to be confused with a similar mammoth effort at mammoth-cloning at Kyoto University.

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  1. Mass production by MichaelSmith · · Score: 5, Funny

    Knowing the Koreans they will be turning out a million units a year starting in 2014.

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    1. Re:Mass production by philip.paradis · · Score: 4, Funny

      That would be a truly mammoth production level.

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    2. Re:Mass production by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      And the first questions after they have successfully cloned a mammoth by the people will be, "How does it taste?"
       

    3. Re:Mass production by Ihmhi · · Score: 4, Funny

      They had better be careful. Things could get a bit hairy.

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    4. Re:Mass production by ryanov · · Score: 3, Funny

      I never buy cars from any company that doesn't allow wheels. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.

    5. Re:Mass production by Mitchell314 · · Score: 4, Funny

      *tusk* *tusk*
      No need to be condescending; the Koreans know what they're doing.

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    6. Re:Mass production by thomst · · Score: 4, Funny

      And the first questions after they have successfully cloned a mammoth by the people will be, "How does it taste?"

      And the answer will be, "Like chicken!"

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  2. Arsenal by sixtyeight · · Score: 3, Funny

    Forget their nuclear capabilities. We now have a bigger problem.

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    1. Re:Arsenal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Mexico, USA and Canada confuse you too?

  3. Giants by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Next we'll need to genetically engineer giants to herd these mammoths...

  4. Sounds great by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Until they figure out that mammoths are assholes and that there is another reason they are extinct.

  5. At Last... by FatdogHaiku · · Score: 5, Funny

    Knowing the Koreans they will be turning out a million units a year starting in 2014.

    I will FINALLY be able to get those giant, car tipping Bar-B-Que ribs Fred Flintstone caused me to lust after for so very long!

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    1. Re:At Last... by FatdogHaiku · · Score: 3, Funny

      Well, I'm thinking if trained properly they would also make great guard animals... a sign saying
      WARNING:
      Property Protected by
      Attack Mammoth!
      should make anyone think twice about entering.

      Also might be cool to breed them down to the size of a pony and ride them to work...
      But the ribs idea could help the world economy. Imagine the demand for Bar-B-Que sauce and over-sized napkins.

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    2. Re:At Last... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      You bastard, you made me google "Flinstone porn", and now I dearly regret it. Fucker!

    3. Re:At Last... by FireFury03 · · Score: 4, Funny

      You bastard, you made me google "Flinstone porn", and now I dearly regret it. Fucker!

      Read that as "nearly regret it"...

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    4. Re:At Last... by Hognoxious · · Score: 3, Funny

      Because Elephants aren't a particularly effective weapon. If they were, we'd all be talking Carthaginian now.

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  6. I don't even... by grasshoppa · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm not sure how much I trust any scientist that thinks elephants are born out of eggs....

    ( I keed, I keed )

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  7. Re:This is good to hear considering... by MightyMartian · · Score: 2, Funny

    Like rational intelligent statesmen?

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  8. Re:Saber Tooth Tiger, Dodo, Neanderthal and .. Chr by Tablizer · · Score: 3, Funny

    Here's what would happen if you cloned Jesus:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbcr-SQ-gEY

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  9. Re:Huh. by interkin3tic · · Score: 1, Funny

    Can't remember the exact quote, but "Let's fly this alien spaceship into the mothership and use my Mac laptop to destroy their computers"?

  10. Re:Sweet by dbIII · · Score: 3, Funny

    On an aside, fuck the rhino

    Looks like we have a somewhat kinky but definitely tough enough replacement for Bear Grylls.