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Wildlife park to clone mammoth!?

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by rockHEAD, Aug 21, 2002.

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  1. rockHEAD

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    Wildlife park to add mammoth attraction
    August 21, 2002 Posted: 8:14 AM EDT (1214 GMT)

    (CNN) -- In an eerie recreation of Steven Spielberg's blockbuster movie "Jurassic Park", scientists are planning to clone an extinct animal to be the central attraction of a wildlife park.

    The Times of London reports that Japanese scientists are planning to use tissue from the legs and testicles of a dead mammoth to clone the extinct creature and display it at an Ice Age wildlife park in Siberia.

    Mammoths became extinct about 10,000 years ago, but using a technique that involves impregnating an Indian elephant -- its closest genetic relative -- with mammoth sperm and then repeating the procedure with its offspring could produce a creature that is 88 percent mammoth in 50 years, the report said.

    An alternative technique would involve cloning the mammoth from DNA found in the soft tissue, but although methods of extraction have improved, complete strands of DNA from mammoths are still hard to come by.

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    #1 rockHEAD, Aug 21, 2002
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    Wow, I hope their able to do it sooner! That's a long wait. I believe it's possible. But displaying them in Siberia???

    What a trip THAT would be. (brrrr... it's cold there and far, far away!)
     
    #2 Deckard, Aug 21, 2002
  3. MadMax

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    oh, yeah...I like this idea...this can't miss...

    :rolleyes:
     
    #3 MadMax, Aug 21, 2002
  4. PhiSlammaJamma

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    DIDN'T THEY WATCH THE MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!


    I also saw where they found the speech gene in humans and are now going to try and mutate it in mice to see what happens. Holy crap. What is next.
     
    #4 PhiSlammaJamma, Aug 21, 2002
  5. MadMax

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    too bad Walt Disney already beat their punk asses to that one!!! :)
     
    #5 MadMax, Aug 21, 2002
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    ...and before you even knew what you had you patented it, and packaged it, andslappeditonthesideofaplasticlunchboxandnowyou'resellingit,(BANGS TABLE) you wanna sell it.

    Bad idea or not I'd pay money to see anything resurrected from extinction.
     
    #6 AntiSonic, Aug 21, 2002
  7. PhiSlammaJamma

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    I'd like to patton the word "mammoth" right now.

    Imagine a baby mammoth too. Now that's a tourist attraction, but who takes care of it? A regular elephant? I remember a post a while back about renegade elephants who had no parents. When elephants don't have parents they rage. When they have parenbts they are quite peaceful. uh oh!
     
    #7 PhiSlammaJamma, Aug 21, 2002
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