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[Wreav]

DNA becomes unusable after 500 or so years, so yeah, not gonna happen.

 

[Napoleonthechimp]

DNA becomes unusable after 500 or so years, so yeah, not gonna happen.

It has a 500 year-ish half life, but I imagine the low temperatures in which these types of carcasses are found would alter that.

 

[Ran rp]

Adorable.

Is it weird calling a partially eaten carcass adorable?

 

[Clydefrog]

It looks like sheepskin.

Pretty amazing discovery!

LOL.

Meth. Not even once.

 

[The Beard]

How do we bring it back to life?

Start with CPR, or maybe an Adrenaline shot to the heart.

 

[Ryaaan14]

It's made out of wood?

 

[bengraven]

This shit is really exciting to me as a prehistory nerd! I'm nerding the fuck out.

Look at that coloration, I figured it would be darker or more red like the mammoth.

Hopefully we can find a bigger one, or even better another species!

 

[Big-E]

Great, but am I the only one that is a little sad about this as we are probably going to be finding more things in the ice now that all the ice is going away.

 

[bengraven]

Impeccable timing considering the Jurassic World viral marketing campaign just teased Ice Age animals. :lol

Anyways.. soon.

Spoiler

I wish.

If this ever happened in the future, it will be the biggest "fuck you" from fate if it happens after I'm dead.

Seriously, take your cell phones and vidya games and internet and clean cars and everything, just give me prehistoric animals.

 

[gutter_trash]

clone it please!

 

[SolidusDave]

Impeccable timing considering the Jurassic World viral marketing campaign just teased Ice Age animals. :lol

Anyways.. soon.

Spoiler

I wish.

Dude sure is serious about taking a close-up with his telephoto lens.

 

[Epsilon-delta]

Dude sure is serious about taking a close-up with his telescopic lens.

I was about to post the same thing lol.

 

[Smellycat]

Impeccable timing considering the Jurassic World viral marketing campaign just teased Ice Age animals. :lol

Anyways.. soon.

Spoiler

I wish.

Why would you need binoculars when the animals are right there?

 

[skynidas]

Why would you need binoculars when the animals are right there?

those are not binoculars, he's taking a photo

 

[Floridian]

Adorable.

 

[TheBaldEmperor]

Hahaha! Thanks for this. Needed to laugh.

 

[Ekdrm2d1]

Awesome!

 

[Zantetsuken]

Impeccable timing considering the Jurassic World viral marketing campaign just teased Ice Age animals. :lol

Anyways.. soon.

Spoiler

I wish.

They would probably have guns in their hand trying to hunt it instead.

 

[Ekdrm2d1]

They would probably have guns in their hand trying to hunt it instead.

lol

 

[Ekdrm2d1]

Girl needs a pedicure

 

[Jason's Ultimatum]

Sasha? Clever girl.

 

[ThatStupidLion]

looks really cute

 

[Freeza Under The Shower]

If this ever happened in the future, it will be the biggest "fuck you" from fate if it happens after I'm dead.

Seriously, take your cell phones and vidya games and internet and clean cars and everything, just give me prehistoric animals.

Look in a mirror?

the whole "prehistoric" term hides the fact these are actually contemporary animals, and should have been around if not for some "inexplicable" event that conspired as hominids travelled the globe.

( I just wonder where we will be if a non-human types up our history between animals. )

 

[GKSilKamina]

That's the cutest corpse I've ever seen.

 

[FairyD]

I think the McRib will be coming back soon.

 

[Lamel]

If you really think about it, that is incredible.

 

[Demoncarnotaur]

If you really think about it, that is incredible.

I really cannot wait to see what else may pop out of the permafrost in the future.

 

[televator]

I wish we'd find a Dino in ice... Those feathers would make my day.

 

[Chuckie]

Super awesome!

This does mean we will have a yearly: "Scientists close to cloning wooly rhino!"- thread next to our yearly "Scientists close to cloning mammoth"-thread

 

[Valtýr]

is it ok?

 

[Chichikov]

It has a 500 year-ish half life, but I imagine the low temperatures in which these types of carcasses are found would alter that.

Temperature, which is the kinetic energy of atoms/molecules does not affect nuclear decay, which is a fundamental nuclear force.
With that being said, you are right that 500(ish) years is indeed the half life of DNA as therefore we are able to find much older usable DNA, I believe the record is around 800,000 years and scientists believe we can go up to about 1.5 million years.
No enough for dinosaurs, but easily enough for some awesome megafauna.

Clone me a Diprotodon science, I want to ride a giant wombat dammit!

 

[Austriacus]

Temperature, which is the kinetic energy of atoms/molecules does not affect nuclear decay, which is a fundamental nuclear force.
With that being said, you are right that 500(ish) years is indeed the half life of DNA as therefore we are able to find much older usable DNA, I believe the record is around 800,000 years and scientists believe we can go up to about 1.5 million years.
No enough for dinosaurs, but easily enough for some awesome megafauna.

Clone me a Diprotodon science, I want to ride a giant wombat dammit!

so are you telling me whe are never seeing dinos?

Fuck

 

[Demoncarnotaur]

so are you telling me whe are never seeing dinos?

Fuck

Super unlikely, but who knows what discoveries the future may hold which change our understanding of DNA preservation.

I would just be thrilled to somehow see Pleistocene animals.

 

[luffxan]

Wooly rhinos sound adorable ~ would love to see a live one

 

[CadetMahoney]

I really cannot wait to see what else may pop out of the permafrost in the future.

John Carpenter's The Thing.

 

[RSP]

We cant even keep the rhino's alive that we have in the present day ...