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Scientists Recover Wooly Mammoth Blood
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"'Russian scientists claimed Wednesday they have discovered blood in the carcass of a woolly mammoth, adding that the rare find could boost their chances of cloning the prehistoric animal.' As scientists unearthed the recent find, very dark blood flowed out from beneath the mammoth, and the muscle tissue was red. This is the best-preserved specimen found so far and they are hopeful they can recover DNA and clone a mammoth. Semyon Grigoriev, one of the researchers, said, 'The approximate age of this animal is about 10,000 years old. It has been preserved thanks to the special conditions, due to the fact that it did not defrost and then freeze again. We suppose that the mammoth fell into water or got bogged down in a swamp, could not free herself and died. Due to this fact the lower part of the body, including the lower jaw, and tongue tissue, was preserved very well. The upper torso and two legs, which were in the soil, were gnawed by prehistoric and modern predators and almost did not survive.'"
Tiger blood is just so passe now.
"the muscle tissue was red" I can't wait for the photo op of Putin eating a mammoth steak, cooked rare. People could at least take that more seriously than his flight with the cranes.
Wooly mammoth vacuum cleaners, wooly mammoth shower heads, the possibilities for the modern stone age family are endless...
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There is obviously some money for the research, and a zoo would bring in enough revenue to help offset research costs, but how much do you think someone might bid to be the first person in 10,000 years to hunt and kill a woolly mammoth? $20M? $50M? That would go a long way in funding further research. Even better: to do so with stone age weapons.
The contract could stipulate that the researchers still own the carcass, and therefore could profit from auctioning the hide or the ivory. Of course, it would be a long time after cloning until such an endeavor was even worthwhile.
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http://www.lrb.co.uk/v24/n10/richard-fortey/down-to-the-last-flea
now buy a island and open a zoo any on have some dino DNA?
The half life of all DNA is 521 years. What kind of 2-bit "scientists" are these that think they can clone an animal that died 10,000 years ago?
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There are big profits awaiting if you manage to clone one of them. And a lot of patents to fill all in the way toward it. Is the kind of things that could improve, extend, or save the life of only the ones that kindly pays you a lot, for something cheap to produce.
For a woolly Mammoth to survive, in large numbers, its habitat had to have very dense forestation & vegetation, even if it was a colder climate.
The interesting question is why did they suddenly get "flash frozen?" Anything less would result in carcass predation and decomposition.
The only 2 answers I can give is that a sudden volcanic eruption could have occurred to blank out the sun nearly completely or there was an asteroid impact that blanked out the sky.
Either of those conditions should be obvious from sediment records.
The episode 'Fun on a Bun' where Bender digs up a 30,000 year old Woolly Mammoth from the ice to make sausages.. Should make for some tasty sausages!!
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fun_on_a_Bun
" Meanwhile, Bender discovers that chef Elzar is there, ready to win the sausage-making challenge using pork that has been aged over 3000 years. Bender is determined to win the event, and takes a despondent Fry with him in the Planet Express ship to look for woolly mammoths frozen in a nearby glacier within Neander Valley, believing that meat aged over 30,000 years should certainly win. Bender is successful at finding a woolly mammoth, and with Fry's help, proceeds to grind the woolly mammoth into sausages."
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Looks like mammoths are able to breathe under water as well as be alive before the Christian god created the universe. Damn you Satan, quit tricking with us!
Wouldn't that run the risk of creating some sort of mammoth frog?
I'm not sure I'd want to risk that.
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The article reviews "Mammoth: The Resurrection of an Ice Age Giant" by Richard Stone, a detailed account of the 1901 Berezovka River expedition in Siberia. The starving Russians found exceptionally well-preserved mammoth meat and debated whether to eat it instead of rancid horseflesh; they decided to feed it to their dogs instead. The NSFW warning applies to where on the mammoth the well-preserved meat came from and the detailed description by the author.
Read the submission next time before marking it -1, Offtopic, moderator.
Posting the topical link again for interested readers: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v24/n10/richard-fortey/down-to-the-last-flea
Wooly Mammoths, running amok, skewering people with their tusks. Can we really handle another POS low budget Syfy movie?
When can we have the Mammoth-Wurst...?
So we'll be cloning a Darwin award grand champion? The Earth is covered in water; what will stop the mammoth from repeating its mistake?
The first one burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp.
and now they're just cloning 2300 pound mosquitoes with ten-foot tusks. terrific. first solid food for our Minnesota mosquitoes.
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
The blood is believed to be an ancestor of Prime Minister Julia Gillard.
It's already on an island, the problem is that at those climates the sea freezes.
That's ridiculous. It's only about 4500 yrs old. Just after the worldwide flood. Evolution nonsense is always making things out to be older than they really are. You can look up Kent Hovind on youtube to find good info on how evolution is a fraud. He shows how science really does show the earth to be young. About 6 thousand yrs old.
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Red meat? Still blood in tact? I'll take it medium rare no steak sauce.
Or.. maybe we'll have a new Russian based fast food chain in a few years?
This is a great step towards satisfying the undying dream of a free-roaming, snow-loving, extinct animal: that its species may one day be resurrected and placed in a zoo during a period of ever-increasing global temperatures.
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