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Mastodon anyone?
28 July 2007, 01:09
eyedocMastodon anyone?
One of the Top news stories on AOL today is the discovery of some mastodon tusks that measured 16 and 15 feet long. They are a matched pair having come from the same animal.The anthropologist estimate he was in his prime at about forty years of age.
So lets hope they can extract a bit of viable DNA and clone some of these and hopefully about twenty years after I am dead there will be huntably mastodon.
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I remember reading somewhere that a japanese group where trying to clone a siberian mammoth but have heard no more
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28 July 2007, 05:30
L. David KeithI follow paleontology closely, and this dig is in Greece, where previously there was a 13 foot tusk unearthed. They do not expect to find any DNA from this dig. However, they have Mammoth D
NA but none of the cells are useful. Cells burst when frozen via nature, rendering them useless. Let's not mess around: if they're going to clone something, let's see Tyrannosaur's and Allosaurus. Now that's dangerous game at its finest! LDK
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28 July 2007, 07:29
Kyler HamannIn grad school I was actually in a lab where they were using PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) to extract DNA from a T. Rex leg bone. This bone was exceptionally well preserved and the person who discovered it was touring the country letting different "experts" take a shot at getting DNA. One of these guys (actually hired as a consultant for the Jurassic Park movies) was in my Department.
He was given 3 days and was able to get very small, essentially unusable pieces of DNA but that was years ago and that science was very young then.
The cloning of extinct animals may not be as far off as we think.
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28 July 2007, 08:34
AglifterIf there was enough money put behind it, mastodon could happen -- plenty of frozen samples, and elephants to carry it to term -- the problem is the research just to be able to control the elephant's cycle hasn't been done, so that'd be the first big hurdle, in addition to trying to either cobble together an intact nucleus -- probably easier/more likely to try and go through an large sample and find an intact nucleus.
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28 July 2007, 17:20
mr rigbyI wonder what i will do if i walk out in the forest ara i own and spots an Wooly mammoth or an wooly rhino.......... I think that i might order an 600 NE Krieghoff 5 mintues afterwards that incident...
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But it sounds terrific with the cloning, but will the animals handle the enviroment as it is today, it was colder for the Mastodon, Mammoth and other game, and with the natural enviroment chance it is now as it was when they died out will it be good for them at all?
28 July 2007, 23:01
Unit5AI thought this was cool too. It looks pretty well preserved. I for one would love to see them clone a mammoth somehow if possible...
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Bit off my arse! Obviously some Neaderthal's trophy has been stolen.
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