"They were basically an ICE AGE creature if I"m not mistaken. Made to live in the far north. Cold weather elephants is what I think of them as. "
This is where one of the biggest mysteries surrounding the wooly mammoth lies. Frozen wooly mammoths have been found with their mouths containing, of all things, buttercups. The problem being that buttercups (at least modern ones) only grow in warm weather, and the mammoth was frozen where it stood. This indicates either: a)buttercups that thrivve and bloom in subzero temperatures, or b)A sudden catastrophic change in temperature (as in the mammoth was pretty much frozen before it even had a chance to fall over.)
In the 70's (I barely remember seeing the photos in the paper as a small child) A Japanese trawler caught something large in their nets. It was believed by some to be a dinosaur carcass, although some claimed it was a large sea turtle. Unfortunately, no definite claims either way can be made because the crew couldn't bear the stench and dropped the carcass overboard before it could be examined. These days you'll probably only here such claims made by groups like the Fortean Society, but I bring up this specific incident because I remember seeing a black&white photograph in a newspaper in the early 70's.
I'll be very brief here, and point out that at least one frozen mammoth has been thawed, cooked, and eaten in this century. Considering that the meat was still edible (even if it supposedly didn't taste very good) I don't find it unreasonable to assume that a sufficient amount of DNA may remain intact to bring back the species.
I personally know someone who is working with triceratops DNA, and while bringing back the triceratops isn't possible at this point, it is interesting to note that DNA from a creature something like 6500 times as old as a mammoth can still be at least partially sequenced.
Of course, I seem to recall that iron filings or steel wool (not stainless) will generate lots of rust almost instantly when submerged in hydrogen peroxide. You probably don't want the foam to run all over your carpet because H2O2 might bleach the carpet, but the reaction products are water, rust, & oxygen.
Then just get some adhesive and clear-coat to finish the job.
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"They were basically an ICE AGE creature if I"m not mistaken. Made to live in the far north. Cold weather elephants is what I think of them as. "
This is where one of the biggest mysteries surrounding the wooly mammoth lies. Frozen wooly mammoths have been found with their mouths containing, of all things, buttercups. The problem being that buttercups (at least modern ones) only grow in warm weather, and the mammoth was frozen where it stood. This indicates either:
a)buttercups that thrivve and bloom in subzero temperatures, or
b)A sudden catastrophic change in temperature (as in the mammoth was pretty much frozen before it even had a chance to fall over.)
In the 70's (I barely remember seeing the photos in the paper as a small child) A Japanese trawler caught something large in their nets. It was believed by some to be a dinosaur carcass, although some claimed it was a large sea turtle. Unfortunately, no definite claims either way can be made because the crew couldn't bear the stench and dropped the carcass overboard before it could be examined. These days you'll probably only here such claims made by groups like the Fortean Society, but I bring up this specific incident because I remember seeing a black&white photograph in a newspaper in the early 70's.
I'll be very brief here, and point out that at least one frozen mammoth has been thawed, cooked, and eaten in this century. Considering that the meat was still edible (even if it supposedly didn't taste very good) I don't find it unreasonable to assume that a sufficient amount of DNA may remain intact to bring back the species.
I personally know someone who is working with triceratops DNA, and while bringing back the triceratops isn't possible at this point, it is interesting to note that DNA from a creature something like 6500 times as old as a mammoth can still be at least partially sequenced.
Of course, I seem to recall that iron filings or steel wool (not stainless) will generate lots of rust almost instantly when submerged in hydrogen peroxide. You probably don't want the foam to run all over your carpet because H2O2 might bleach the carpet, but the reaction products are water, rust, & oxygen.
Then just get some adhesive and clear-coat to finish the job.