Japanese Scientists plan to clone a woolly mammoth

Digital Trends ^ | 02/01/2011 | Jeffrey Van Camp

[MNDude]

It’s about time!

[righttackle44]

Be nice to be able to buy a wooly mammoth at Wal-Mart made by someone other than the Chinese.

[Palmetto Patriot]

Dumbozilla?

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

One Michelle is enough, already.

[USMCPOP]

godzilla needs a pet.

[Mr. K]

I bet that would make one helluva carpet

Clone them on an island and sell hunting expeditions

I am also waiting for the rats who can detect explosives.

I picture letting a bunch of them loose on a minefield and watch them scurry to find their heavenly reward. I know I’d pay to watch. I think Off-Track-Betting could make a fortune in that venue.

[PGR88]

What would it taste like BBQ’ed?

[de.rm]

Must be something to this cultural thing after all, didn't the Scottish brainiacs clone a sheep?

Ok, I'm ready for the list, who will next clone what?

[Tijeras_Slim]

godzilla needs a pet.

How about Mammothra?

[NavyCanDo]

Hey I watched 20,000 Years B.C. Forget the mammoths, clone those Cave Women.

[Razzz42]

Didn’t this go terribly wrong in a Japanese movie plot already?

[MasterGunner01]

Instead of cloning woolly mammoths, the Japanese should be cloning replacement Japanese HUMANS because Japanese men and women are not procreating. Japan is declining in demographic terms and its population is steadily aging its way to oblivion. The death rate has exceeded the replacement birth rate for some time.

[Palmetto Patriot]

[Yet_Again]

They made a movie about scientists who wanted to do this sort of thing some years ago.

It didn't end well.

[danielmryan]

Neanderthals next?

[Georgia Girl 2]

Wooly Mammoth yes, T-Rex no.

[Doc Savage]

Any one know if they got the mother’s consent??? This is of course animal abuse. Speaking of abuse, anyone check to see that an elephant females birth canal can handle the size of a wolly mammoth baby? Ouch! After she drops that load it’ll look like the 405 expressway!

[MarineBrat]

While the results were less spectacular, these same scientists have been working on this problem since they were teenagers.

[feedback doctor]

As Fred D Thompson said about this, “I’m gonna need a bigger grill.”