Woolly Mammoth To Be Resurrected
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"TOKYO (AFP) – Japanese researchers will launch a project this year to resurrect the long-extinct mammoth by using cloning technology to bring the ancient pachyderm back to life in around five years time.
The researchers will try to revive the species by obtaining tissue this summer from the carcass of a mammoth preserved in a Russian research laboratory, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported."
source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/japansciencemammoth
This is not the first time this has been attempted: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3075381.stm
The researchers will try to revive the species by obtaining tissue this summer from the carcass of a mammoth preserved in a Russian research laboratory, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported."
source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/japansciencemammoth
This is not the first time this has been attempted: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3075381.stm
Comments
http://www.petermaas.nl/extinct/speciesinfo/aurochs.htm
I am pretty sure they became extinct for a reason. Also once you take something out of an ecosystem generally you'll struggle to reintroduce it.
Ahh well I suppose if they can work out a way to recapture stray mammoths in small red and white balls we may be in luck.
That's how we "lost" them in the first place.
This is where we get to the gold:
FLINTSTONES THEME PARK WITH REAL (NOT MECHANISED) ANIMALS
Are you suggesting that Mammoths were hunted into extinction with clubs, spears, and arrows?
hey man..if you had a trained raptor though that would be the SHIT.
Aurochs would be cool. Not so far from me their is a wild herd of cattle that are very closely related to aurochs, but are much smaller. I have heard people say if the calves are interfered with and smell of humans, the cattle will desert or even kill them.
When we had foot and mouth in the UK ten years ago, all access roads to where the cattle live were shut as were most of the roads around the perimeter.
How many cattle did you guys end up losing over the mad cow thing? I remember reading about that at the time.
The thing with the BSE slaughtering was it was easy to manage. With the foot and mouth, any farm that had a confirmed infection had all animals slaughtered an incinerated on site and neighbouring farms had the animals slaughered on site and incinerated on infected farms. They used coal, diesel, old telegraph poles and timber to make the bonfires.
The UK was quite the BBQ for a number of weeks. If you went out of towns into the countryside you could not help but see and smell masive bonfires of sheep, cows and pigs.
On a side note, my Father was in the army in the '60's and we had FAM then. He was sent on a slaughter and incinerate duties - army rifle, couple of lorry loads of coal and logs and sent to infected farms to kill and burn everything.
The thing with FAM sites is they have a quarantine period on them - its something like 40 days I think - the family leaves the farm but the farmer has to stay to supervise the livestock being slaughtered. My father and his friend spent all day killing beast and set the fire away. His mate complained to the farmer that they had been working all day and he had not offered them a cup of tea.
'What do you expect' said the farmer 'My family is gone, you have slaughtered all of my beasts and all I have for company is the fucking dog'.
BANG.
His mate shot the dog and threw it on the fire.
I dont think they got the cup of tea.