Mammoths to Return? DNA Advances Spur Resurrection Debate

National Geographic News ^ | June 25, 2007 | Mason Inman

[BenLurkin]

Indeed. I wonder what they taste like?

[kitchen]

Neandertals (often spelled "Neanderthals")

Shouldn’t that be included the first time NG misspells simplifies the spelling for who knows who? What’s wrong with maintaining the provenance of a foreign word? Where are the grammar police when they’re needed?

Next thing you know, someone will want to change the spelling of encyclopaedia.

[rbosque]

Well, I found it here.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/03/0324_050324_trexsofttissue.html

[ASA Vet]

Spelling it with the added “h” was an automatic “F” on any paper handed in to my first Anthropology Professor.

[Safetgiver]

MMMM...steaks.

[ASA Vet]

Spelling it with the added “h” was an automatic “F” on any paper handed in to my first Anthropology Professor.

[ASA Vet]

Submitting a paper twice did not help either.

[thulldud]

It wasn't bone marrow.

[rbosque]

I read from another source that it came from a femur and the femur broke revealing the tissue. But I don’t recall the source.

[Gumlegs]

Probably something nonsensical Medved posted.

[Armedanddangerous]

That 458 should do it, as should a 460 Weatherby Magnum or something like that.

[epluribus_2]

(paraphrased quote) “First come the Oohs! and Aahs! then comes the running, the screaming, etc....”

[mjp]

So many researchers think that assembling the genome of Neandertals (often spelled "Neanderthals") or mammoths is just around the corner.

meanwhile

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[ahayes]

1. Yes, the femur broke.
2. No, there was no “tissue”.

[RightWhale]

It was fossilized soft tissue. Soft tissue is usually completely gone by the time fossilization takes effect. Ten thousand years, okay; ten million years forget it except these rare finds.

[rbosque]

Oh.

[presidio9]

I don't think you quite understood what you were reading. They didn't find actual soft tissue. They found fosilized soft tissue. Generally all soft tissue decomposes before fosilization. In this case, the marrow was presereved inside of thick bone, but it still fosilized. If there was any posibility of getting T-Rex DNA here, don't you think National Geographic might think that would be of interest to its readers?

[Professional Engineer]

Honey, you picked the last three pets.

My turn.

[wildbill]

AIEEEEEEEEE!

[pcottraux]

Cool!