On CNN there is a video of some Russian scientist looking at a babby Mammoth that has been found and a tag on the side of the video says that they are hoping to use this to help clone Mammoths again!

As the saying goes, Art imitates life!

I suppose the next question for the scientist is "Er, why?"


And everyone just lost the game.

Isn't "baby mammoth" an oxymoron? Shouldn't the correct term for the newborn offspring be something like a "tiny" and perhaps a young adult should be called something like a "moderate" or "bulky"?

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My computer beat me at chess, but I won at kickboxing

I have to agree with BK on this one. Why? Ok I know that baby anythings tend to be cute - and wooley elephants have some appeal.

Is this some kind of race guilt because cavemen might have hunted these guys to extinction?

If so, can we bring back the Dodo first please?

There is more meat on a mammoth - and 4 people can each have a leg..............

I think it would be best to start with cloning extinct plants before animals.

Two reasons, there should probably be something for the mammoths to eat, and if a plant is annoyed at you, it can't trample you into a damp smudge on the floor.

I remember hearing something on the news last year some time - I only know because I had to explain to my mother why I found it so funny - which would place me in NZ & thus was before the end of May last year.
It seems like scientists showing off 'Lets bring back a mammoth - 'cause we can!'

Good enough reason in my book. I do a number of things because I can....

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Mammoths are thought to be an easier option than dodos. There are loads of mammoth corpses on ice up in the arctic, which would make a plausible source of dna. There are few bits of dodo left lying around - a few bones, which tend to be comparitively dna-poor and the desicated Oxford Dodo, and similar specimines - drying out ain't good for dna either.

Rob

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You'd probably also need something to carry the fetus and give birth to it, and we have all sorts of handy elephants. I don't know anything about how it works with birds, but it seems to me it might be more difficult to get the DNA into an egg appropriate to hatch a dodo?

maybe if you could breed a big enough pigeon... Or an emu/pigeon hybrid, with atomic supermen to guard it, with cannons in their chests and laser beams where there eyes should be...

Pick me! I want to be one of those guys. Always wanted a really piercing gaze....

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"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Don't contemplate your own navel: pierced navels - YUCK!

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My computer beat me at chess, but I won at kickboxing

Look at you birthdate and you see the reason for that thinking. :P

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"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Not an age thing: mutilation has never appealed to me!

*snort* Nice one Martin.

Skids, there's nothing wrong with a little mutilation, done tastefully.

Mutilation of others yes, but onesself?

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My computer beat me at chess, but I won at kickboxing

WAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH WANNA WANNA WANNA WANNA DODO

In this pot please. And you can get rid of it.

Oh... Dodo....

Thank you Kitten.

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland