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Mammoths may roam again after 27,000 years
Times Online (U.K.) ^ | 08/15/2006 | Mark Henderson

Posted on 08/14/2006 9:17:59 PM PDT by peyton randolph

BODIES of extinct Ice Age mammals, such as woolly mammoths, that have been frozen in permafrost for thousands of years may contain viable sperm that could be used to bring them back from the dead, scientists said yesterday.

Research has indicated that mammalian sperm can survive being frozen for much longer than was previously thought, suggesting that it could potentially be recovered from species that have died out...

(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Japan; Russia
KEYWORDS: breeding; cloning; frozen; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; humangenome; japan; jurassicpark; mammoth; mammoths; mammothtoldme; mouse; pleistocene; pleistocenepark; rewilding; rewildingamerica; russia; science; sperm
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To: peyton randolph

I say use frog DNA!

Seriously, why not just clone the mammoth like it was a common sheep (hello Dolly!) and use elephants to bring the zygote to term. then you have a 100% mammouth.


61 posted on 08/15/2006 3:21:15 AM PDT by Vaquero ("An armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Nathan Zachary

nice try creation boy, but you cant explain the tiny ears. the tiny ears were to prevent heat loss.


62 posted on 08/15/2006 3:26:23 AM PDT by Vaquero ("An armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Vaquero

I would love to see some fast breeding super velociraptors introduced upon the public, say Iran for instance.

It just warms my heart visioning images of raptors vs. Hezbolla

Or Aliens and Predator as well. I hope the scientist do bring back the mammoth, and also some dodo birds.


63 posted on 08/15/2006 3:36:18 AM PDT by Eye of Unk
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To: Vaquero
A theory is not falsified by its inability to explain everything, as you should well know evo boy.

The tiny ears were to prevent heat loss? (There you go asserting features have a "purpose".) Do all animals with tiny ears live in cold climates? Snakes don't have large ears.
64 posted on 08/15/2006 3:51:44 AM PDT by unlearner (You will never come to know that which you do not know until you first know that you do not know it.)
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To: Al Simmons
But resurrecting a living TRex will not happen because dinosaur DNA is long gone.

Oddly enough, you may be incorrect on that point.

Not that there are any live T. rexes left, but I do believe if we needed some T. rex DNA, it would be readily available.

65 posted on 08/15/2006 3:52:03 AM PDT by Oberon (As a matter of fact I DO want fries with that.)
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To: Vaquero
the tiny ears were to prevent heat loss.

Sounds like a reasonable design feature.

66 posted on 08/15/2006 3:56:04 AM PDT by Oberon (As a matter of fact I DO want fries with that.)
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To: unlearner

Your name says it all, "Unlearner".

How wonderful for you that you can survive and thrive while ignoring all the facts.


67 posted on 08/15/2006 4:20:07 AM PDT by Vaquero ("An armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Plutarch

Thank you for volunteering your private yard for housing.


68 posted on 08/15/2006 4:30:14 AM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: unlearner

Actually, I don't believe snakes have any ears. Skinks do though.


69 posted on 08/15/2006 5:02:00 AM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: peyton randolph

Great. Just great. Now my kids are going to want one. And I know how it's going to go.

"Yes, Mommy, we swear we'll clean up after the mammoth! I'll take it for walks every day! I'll shovel up the poop and bring it water! Only please please please please please just please buy us a woolly mammoth!"

And I'll say, "OK, but if you don't take care of that mammoth properly it's going back."

"We'll take care of it, Mom! We absolutely promise!"

Three months later I'll be the one shovelling up mammoth poop, training the mammoth, grooming it, paying its vet bills, feeding it, taking it for walks, having it curl up in my study while I read FR. And then the kids will be surprised because the mammoth loves me and wants to sleep at the foot of my bed, not theirs. It never fails.


70 posted on 08/15/2006 5:12:36 AM PDT by Fairview
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To: Nathan Zachary

Many years ago I read an article about gold miners in Alaska who were using steam jets to cut into the frozen muskeg and sliuce gold. At a certain depth the hita very deep layer of frozen tropical plants including palm trees that were torn apart and quick frozen by some natural disaster. Also uncovered very massive amounts of animal remains, also shredded and instantly frozen. This include remains of giant sloths and saber toothed tigers.

The author alluded to a slippage of the Earth's crust on its core by about 90 degrees. I have at times come across this theory again with predictions that it has occurred several times in Earth's history. Therefore polar regions instantly became equatorial regions and vice versa. It was postulated that the shredding occurred due to the speed with which the crust shift occurred while the atmosphere did not shift resulting massive wind velocities and by huge displacement of oceans and seas. If the displacement happend so fast it stands to reason that the weather systems would not have shifted thus the "new" polar areas would have resulted in the rapid freezing of the once tropical areas. Likewise the shift would have resulted in the quick thawing of glaciers and ice caps that may have shifted with the crust resulting in rapid thawing of massive amounts of ice and snow that resulted in very large raises of sea level.

One must keep in mind that the one's position on the face of the sphere could spell survival or death. Example: if the centerline of the shift occurred on the Greenwich meridian from North to South those living 90 degrees E & W longitude may have noticed very little except a 90 degree rotation of the heavens. The closer you lived to the prime shift radial the more violent the results would be.

Not saying it happend; but some scientists believe that there is evidence to support this theory. There is a school of thought that says this happend within the last fifteen to twenty thousand years when massive amounts of ice wre stored in the polar regions and that the Earth's crust become top-heavy and shifted south. That would account for the end of the last ice age. It would also mean that Antartica was once a tropical clime.


71 posted on 08/15/2006 5:27:27 AM PDT by .44 Special (Death to Traitors!)
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To: peyton randolph

Your post doesn't come up on a search under MAMMOTH


72 posted on 08/15/2006 6:24:34 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: peyton randolph
And it doesn't do so because you didn't include MAMMOTH as an obvious keyword.

This article isn't really about MAMMOTHS anyway ~ It's about FROZEN MOUSE SPERM.

73 posted on 08/15/2006 6:25:24 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: peyton randolph

So, I fixed that for you.


74 posted on 08/15/2006 6:26:49 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: peyton randolph
Mammoth tusk! Get yer Mammoth Tusk!........
75 posted on 08/15/2006 6:31:35 AM PDT by Rb ver. 2.0
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To: peyton randolph

Thanks. Nice article. But I found your ping too late to deploy the list.


76 posted on 08/15/2006 6:34:32 AM PDT by PatrickHenry (Everything is blasphemy to somebody.)
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To: peyton randolph
A mammophant or an elephammoth?

It doesn't matter what you call them, some nitwit will want to turn loose a herd of them to roam free along the boundaries of some National Park, protected by law, and deny they ever tore up anyone's crops.

Wolves are bad enough.

77 posted on 08/15/2006 6:35:21 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: Fairview

"Three months later I'll be the one shovelling up mammoth poop, training the mammoth, grooming it, paying its vet bills, feeding it, taking it for walks, having it curl up in my study while I read FR."
*****
Can you imagine going to the ASPCA/Human Society to adopt one of these? And the animal control officers are going to need semi-trucks.


78 posted on 08/15/2006 6:37:07 AM PDT by peyton randolph (No man knows the day nor the hour of The Coming of The Great White Handkerchief.)
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To: muawiyah

Thank you for adding the keyword. FReeper Mammoth afficionados will be forever in your debt.


79 posted on 08/15/2006 6:40:55 AM PDT by peyton randolph (No man knows the day nor the hour of The Coming of The Great White Handkerchief.)
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To: peyton randolph

I did nothing with "MAMMOTH", just the "MOUSE SPERM" part.


80 posted on 08/15/2006 6:41:52 AM PDT by muawiyah
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