Cool stuff.
The mastodons they found in Russia in ice several years back had enough tissue left they were talking about doing some sort of Jurrasic Park creation with a modern day elephant...or something to that affect.
Anyone know more information regarding this? They seemed very serious about it at the time but sure how viable it is.
From Earth in Upheaval by Immanual Velikovsky:
In 1797 the body of a mammoth, with flesh skin, and hair was found in northeastern Siberia, and since then bodies of other mammoths have been unearthed from the frozen ground in various parts of that region. The flesh had the appearance of freshly frozen beef; it was edible, and the wolves and sledge dogs fed on it without harm. [footnote references an observation of D.F.Hertz in B Digby: The Mammoth (1926), p.9.]Really what is more interesting is the inference Velikovsky makes from this which is that the mammoths must have been entombed and frozen almost instantly, else they would have rotted. Full text is available at Amazon. (This link takes you to page 19 where the extract I presented appears at the bottom of the page.)
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I remember hearing that too.
Seems it would be even more feasible today.
And what could possibly go wrong?
Would be cool though, to recreate an extinct species, even if it was only a close copy.
Maybe they’ll come across a frozen female with some intact eggs one of these days and can fertilize and implant into an elephant as a surrogate to get the ball rolling.
Japs are working on it.