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Mammoths may roam again after 27,000 years
Times on line/ Drudgereport ^ | Aug. 15, 2006 | Mark Henderson, Science Editor Times on line

Posted on 08/15/2006 4:46:58 AM PDT by thiscouldbemoreconfusing

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.

Several well-preserved mammoth carcasses have been found in the permafrost of Siberia, and scientists estimate that there could be millions more.

Last year a Canadian team demonstrated that it was possible to extract DNA from the specimens, and announced the sequencing of about 1 per cent of the genome of a mammoth that died about 27,000 years ago.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: creation; dna; evolution; godsgravesglyphs; iceage; mammoth
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To: cydcharisse
There'll be no citation, I assure you.

Unless it's from Hovind.

61 posted on 08/15/2006 5:43:40 AM PDT by RogueIsland (.)
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To: satchmodog9

Yuck! But, it says it all.


62 posted on 08/15/2006 5:43:42 AM PDT by ghostrider
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To: ClaireSolt

I've heard Wooly Mammoths aren't gay.


63 posted on 08/15/2006 5:49:28 AM PDT by eyedigress
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To: Young Scholar

I'm not sure whether this "sitting judge in Alabama" is A) an honest and earnest idiot, 2) delusional, or III) a parody/troll. All three are so abundant on the 'Net that it's hard to tell any more.


64 posted on 08/15/2006 5:49:54 AM PDT by ReignOfError
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To: ChristianDefender

I don't think an organism that has been extinct for 27,000 years could live outside a bubble.


65 posted on 08/15/2006 5:53:09 AM PDT by ClaireSolt (.)
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To: Lazamataz

You got it.


66 posted on 08/15/2006 5:54:27 AM PDT by ClaireSolt (.)
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To: Thermalseeker
Interesting place. Apparently, it was a wallow hole for both Columbian and Woolly mammoths, but only for the boys.

That explains the extinction part.....

67 posted on 08/15/2006 6:01:47 AM PDT by myprecious
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To: thiscouldbemoreconfusing
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PBS shows them every now and then.

They live in New York.

68 posted on 08/15/2006 6:05:48 AM PDT by cobaltblu
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To: Lazamataz

--First evolutionist said that the mammoth has been extinct for billions of years, then it was millions of years and now it is but 27,000 years--

What evolutionist ever said that. Wooly mammoths likely evolved from an ancestory similar to the Asian elephant, to which they are most closely related, and migrated northwards during the Pleistocene (approximately 2 million to 10,000 years ago). IIRC mammoths survived until roughly 10,000 years ago, at least in North America and/or Siberia.


69 posted on 08/15/2006 6:13:55 AM PDT by katyusha (Those who fail history are doomed to go to summer school)
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To: katyusha
What evolutionist ever said that.

The evolutionist that this poster made up out of whole cloth.

Besides, we all know that the Wooly Mammoth has only been extinct for 1/2000 of a picosecond.

70 posted on 08/15/2006 6:15:32 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Islam is a perversion of faith, a lie against human spirit, an obscenity shouted in the face of G_d)
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To: edpc; laz
My cattle dog wants one to hang off but I don't know what Mammoths eat. And how high does my fence need to be. I'm thinking Laz will know :-)
71 posted on 08/15/2006 6:16:31 AM PDT by mcshot ("If it ain't broke it doesn't have enough features." paraphrased anon.)
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To: thiscouldbemoreconfusing
So man and mammoth walked the earth together, wow, Dawin must be rolling over in his grave.

One would have thought even creationists had heard that stone-age humans made cave paintings of mammoths. As the great philosopher Homer Simpson would put it, DOH!

72 posted on 08/15/2006 6:20:05 AM PDT by HayekRocks
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To: edpc
OK...but for what purpose? Is there a big demand for Mammoths out there?

Plinking?

73 posted on 08/15/2006 6:20:48 AM PDT by ExtremeUnction
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To: mcshot
how high does my fence need to be

You better check with your Home Owners Association. A Wooly Mammoth might be restricted in certain neighborhoods.

74 posted on 08/15/2006 6:21:42 AM PDT by myprecious
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To: Lazamataz
for 1/2000 of a picosecond.

Nope - one femto second.

75 posted on 08/15/2006 6:22:35 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your most dangerous enemy is your own government)
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To: thiscouldbemoreconfusing

Still waiting for a citation of an evolutionist ever claiming that Mammoths went extinct "billions", or even "millions" of years ago.


76 posted on 08/15/2006 6:24:13 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: HayekRocks; thiscouldbemoreconfusing
Dawin must be rolling over in his grave.

Hey Dawin not dead yet

77 posted on 08/15/2006 6:26:58 AM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Here to help)
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To: from occupied ga

Showoff.


78 posted on 08/15/2006 6:36:05 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Islam is a perversion of faith, a lie against human spirit, an obscenity shouted in the face of G_d)
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To: thiscouldbemoreconfusing

Well, no matter what you believe in as far as how long they have been extinct, I hope they won't be extinct for that much longer, even if they are 50% mammoth and 50% elephant or whatever. If they could pull this off, they could really get kids back into science and math, something we need in this country.


79 posted on 08/15/2006 6:37:25 AM PDT by af_vet_rr
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To: thiscouldbemoreconfusing

"First evolutionist said that the mammoth has been extinct for billions of years, then it was millions of years and now it is but 27,000 years. "

Actually, that's incorrect. Mammoths have been known to have lived 20-30,000 years ago for a very long time. They did not live billions of years ago, and no paleontologist has ever said that they did.

If you're trying to discredit the Theory of Evolution, it's probably better if you work with factual information.


80 posted on 08/15/2006 6:45:14 AM PDT by MineralMan (non-evangelical atheist)
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