Wooly Mammoth blood found, fueling hopes of cloning the Ice Age animal

Louise E. Rothstein

Arachnobaron
Old Timer
Joined
Feb 10, 2005
Messages
430
Clone extinct animals?
People have tried to.
None have ever succeeded.

Perhaps somebody shall.

---------- Post added 06-05-2013 at 10:46 PM ----------

Human population control isn't ONE can of worms.
There are at least three "cans" involved:

The first "can" contains the word that we do breed too fast.

The second maintains that we are becoming infertile...people do say that.
Those people think we might wither away.

And now we see a new "can..."
And it is outrageous.

"Jurassic" worms?!?

We were not human then.
Nor monkeylike,for in Jurassic times we resembled rodents who climbed away from carnivores who "controlled" populations:

And who were not successful:
For THEY are extinct:

We're alive.

And we're here.

---------- Post added 06-05-2013 at 10:57 PM ----------

Even as I write we reveal far greater facility for imagining extinct animals alive than for returning them to life.

We still wonder what will happen if they do come back to life.

And we wonder (As we have ALWAYS wondered)

Concerning what will happen to us.

With or without them.
 

The Snark

Dumpster Fire of the Gods
Old Timer
Joined
Aug 8, 2005
Messages
11,497
Reply to L. E. R.

Mankind's egotism is possibly the only thing greater than his penchant for stupidty.
 

sugarsandz

Arachnosquire
Joined
Jul 28, 2012
Messages
144
They'd find a way to turn cloning a mammoth into a reality t.v. show like everything else.
 

Louise E. Rothstein

Arachnobaron
Old Timer
Joined
Feb 10, 2005
Messages
430
Believe it or not-but,when I was a child,I was called "Snooki."

---------- Post added 06-26-2013 at 09:41 PM ----------

Mammoth rides,anyone?
 

Munch

Arachnosquire
Joined
Apr 26, 2013
Messages
115
What would be the purpose of cloning a mammoth........turn it in to a reality t.v.show.Duh
 

The Snark

Dumpster Fire of the Gods
Old Timer
Joined
Aug 8, 2005
Messages
11,497
What would be the purpose of cloning a mammoth........turn it in to a reality t.v.show.Duh
I this modern day with all it's industrial grade tweakiness who would notice a mammoth in your carport?
 

Akai

Arachnobaron
Joined
Jul 23, 2012
Messages
326
To clone or not to clone....that is the question. I think cloning should be a viable option if something today was on the verge of extinction but things from the past....especially from that long ago...they went extinct for a reason. what purpose would we have to clone from an extinct animal other then a reality show? lol
 

~Abyss~

Arachnoking
Old Timer
Joined
Mar 28, 2006
Messages
2,980
To clone or not to clone....that is the question. I think cloning should be a viable option if something today was on the verge of extinction but things from the past....especially from that long ago...they went extinct for a reason. what purpose would we have to clone from an extinct animal other then a reality show? lol
Science is about learning as much as possible, and what better to learn about genetics, cloning, and behavior of an extinct animal than cloning it. I see nothing wrong with it. It’s true that the world of that the mammoth once lived in is gone but it can be recreated to study this animal.
 

Louise E. Rothstein

Arachnobaron
Old Timer
Joined
Feb 10, 2005
Messages
430
Arachnoking is right: mammoth habitat can be recreated.
When Sergey returned some surviving Ice Age herbivores to his experimental Siberian plot these creatures trampled the tundra moss out...and the grassland came back.
It came back because even "Ice Age" grasses tolerate more trampling than moss does;and it also became obvious in short order that these grasses are far more effectively fertilized by manure than moss.

The "world of the mammoth" DID come back on that plot.
And he saw how his returned Ice Age animals did help it happen.

"Reality TV?"

We could manage that much.
We can fake mammoths on accurate background.
If we cannot bring mammoths back we can manage that much.
 

sr20det510

Arachnoknight
Old Timer
Joined
Apr 22, 2012
Messages
167
I hope to see them, the question is where on earth will they be able to live and what do they eat? Are any trees/grasses alive today that were millions of years ago?
GMO!
Soybeans, corn, alfalfa!
Monsanto will figure something out, but then they might claim they own the mammoths.
 

Louise E. Rothstein

Arachnobaron
Old Timer
Joined
Feb 10, 2005
Messages
430
Monsanto is not composed of mammoth fans.
The "mammoths" they do favor are "mammoth profits"
that are far removed from real mammoths.

Although the real mammoth fans have been unable to produce living mammoths they have been able to demonstrate that mammoth habitat CAN be restored-and that the Ice Age animals that survive CAN come back too... IF-and I have to emphasize that "if," humans can be prevented from exterminating them at a greater rate and with worse weapons than those that they employed the last time around.
 

Introvertebrate

Arachnoprince
Old Timer
Joined
Dec 18, 2010
Messages
1,254
The Mammoth Cometh

So again.. Was the blood found to be viable?
It sure looks that way:

"Bringing extinct animals back to life is really happening. The National Geographic Society hosted a conference to debate the scientific and ethical questions raised by the prospect of “de-extinction.” Brand and Phelan invited 36 of the world’s leading genetic engineers and biologists, among them.........Sergey Zimov, who has created an experimental preserve in Siberia called Pleistocene Park, which he hopes to populate with woolly mammoths."

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/02/magazine/the-mammoth-cometh.html?_r=1
 

viper69

ArachnoGod
Old Timer
Joined
Dec 8, 2006
Messages
18,764
This couldn't be more wrong on so many different levels
 

cold blood

Moderator
Staff member
Joined
Jan 19, 2014
Messages
13,425
This couldn't be more wrong on so many different levels
But it just might make a great movie! lol


Has anyone thought of this? I wonder what woolly mammoth tastes like? mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm mammoth!
 
Top