No. It would be more like scientists cloning a man with nice hair when all they have left is a bunch of bald men. The man with hair is obviously far superior to all the cue balls.
Mammoth find: Preserved Ice Age giant found with flowing blood in Siberia
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No. It would be more like scientists cloning a man with nice hair when all they have left is a bunch of bald men. The man with hair is obviously far superior to all the cue balls.
SquiddyCracker
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Oh no, once you got DNA you can easily replicate it (well, okay, not easily). Then they can just try to create a clone until they get it right, and it's like you said - just use an elephant egg, scoop out the inside, inject it with the chromosomes of the Mammoth, and implant it in an Elephant.
Then we should start cloning elephants since they're endangered.
I just think that someone would end up trying to kill the mammoth for it's ivory tusks. ;[
Man Moth?
Same thing crossed my mind. Well done.
I simply don't understand this Luddite attitude, especially from a GAFFER. I mean, how can we stand in the light of discovery, and not act?
Evolution is powerful, there is a fish (cod I think) that has evolved to the point where it does not freeze so its not like its not been seen before but the fact a mammal's blood potentially has the same property's makes it worth looking into.
Cow Mengde
Banned
We can breed them for food! Cavemen ate them, we can eat them too.
Mgoblue201
Won't stop picking the right nation
The Nature article seems to indicate that:
The team predicts that even in a bone at an ideal preservation temperature of −5 ºC, effectively every bond would be destroyed after a maximum of 6.8 million years. The DNA would cease to be readable much earlier perhaps after roughly 1.5 million years, when the remaining strands would be too short to give meaningful information.
Since it's the molecular structure of the DNA that's decaying, it's effected by a variety of things such as the presence of micro-organisms.
IceDoesntHelp
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Do fucking want.
The research could have other applications. It would certainly be a new breakthrough, akin to a Mercury flight or something.
Someone hurry up and find a frozen Dire Wolf.
Now I'm imaging going out to get the paper in the morning and having to shoo away half a dozen mammoths.
Now I'm imaging going out to get the paper in the morning and having to shoo away half a dozen mammoths.
blindrocket
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I vaguely remember an episode of Northern Exposure where one of the town locals found a Mammoth carcass in the snow, hacked it up with a chainsaw and then stocked his freezer to have meat to eat from.
Dark Octave
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I likes what you just said there. I feels the same way.
They've only been gone for 4,000 years in some places.
dragonlife
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Whoa, that's amazing.
OldAsUrSock
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Hey, a "65 million" year old dino had soft tissue and blood cells all good.
Neuromancer
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Science, you know what to do.
I want to be riding my own miniature wolly mammoth to work in 10 years time.
I want to be riding my own miniature wolly mammoth to work in 10 years time.
Baron Aloha
A Shining Example
That's crazy that the blood was still flowing. I agree they need to clone the shit out of this thing.
Freezie KO
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They don't need to clone the shit. They have the blood.
Whitebison
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Delicious!
Do you not realize how long it's been dead?
Naked Snake
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Dark Octave
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I see they wasted no time yanking the tusks, if what I'm looking at is the front of it, anyway.
Why LOL? That was the plan and its single purpose from the beginning. ;D
Sounds stupid.
I expected it to be found in a big ice cube lol
JiuJitsuka
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Miyamoto on secret research mission studying DNA revival to grant Yamauchi eternal life
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triforce on his hood
Art.Menegatti
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Miyamoto san.
pulga
Banned
Holy shit it really is him! Lololol
I wonder what kind of game this will inspire him to make!
TheGravemind
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Maybe it's
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