A recent OCT 2012 New York State report shows that both mammoths and Mastadons co-existed between 12-15,000 years ago in Orange County. What is your choice to clone ? It would save all that airfare to Africa !!

I think the Mastodon would make a nicer pet than the mammoth. You could probably train them to live with cows and protect them from cattle rustlers just they do with sheepdogs in a flock of sheep.

I'll take a Columbian mammoth please. Those long, gracefully scrolled tusks would look awesome in my den!

Mammoth; Tbey could clone a mammoth now if they wanted to; they find them all the time in Siberia, meat still fresh.

An interesting read ...
http://lewis-clark.org/content...e.asp?ArticleID=2860

I wonder how much remodeling I would have to do to fit a pair of 300+lbs a side 12-14 foot long tusks in my cozy little trophy room...?

Lewis -Clark --- If the Delaware indians say so it must be so as I live in the Turtle Clan area of the Delawares .

Rich: Ain't it nice to dream? I'd hunt mine with an atlatl and red osier dogwood darts tipped with 5-inch Clovis points ...

I read a book in the 1960's titled "The Last Mammoth". Setting in the 1700 or early 1800's, about a young gent trying to kill a Mammoth with his flint lock muzzle loader. Kentucky Territory. Mammoth was the last one left and was a terror on the indian villages.

Gun did not have much effect. So he built a forge and made a big spear head from the barrel.

Set up a drop spear between two trees. Had his indian buddy lure the beast into the trap.

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mammoths and Mastadons

I've seen both, at Beverly Center.

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Originally posted by H2CO3:

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mammoths and Mastadons

I've seen both, at Beverly Center.

I'm surprised they don't avoid people.....

Not to mention the ones that went downtown and got stuck in the Tar Pits......