Mammoth 'could be reborn in four years'

Telegraph [UK] ^ | 1/13/11 | Julian Ryall

[Nachum]

The woolly mammoth, extinct for thousands of years, could be brought back to life in as little as four years thanks to a breakthrough in cloning technology. Previous efforts in the 1990s to recover nuclei in cells from the skin and muscle tissue from mammoths found in the Siberian permafrost failed because they had been too badly damaged by the extreme cold. But a technique pioneered in 2008 by Dr. Teruhiko Wakayama, of the Riken Centre for Developmental Biology, was successful in cloning a mouse from the cells of another mouse that had been frozen for 16 years.

[Nachum]

Ruh roh...

[cripplecreek]

12,000 year gestation period.

[Brilliant]

Might be good eating.

[PhiloBedo]

The only reason I can see for doing this, is if they taste good.

[Nachum]

Might be good eating.

They might say the same of us :)

[al baby]

They are using some DNA from the first lady to help facilitate this

[Eyes Unclouded]

Thousand dollar mammoth burgers here we come!

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Now the Democratic Neanderthals in Congress will have some familiar pets.

[2banana]

Can I rent one for a birthday party?

[max americana]

we’re gonna need a bigger gun.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

We used to have a “Wooly Mammoth Theater” near where I work in D.C. but it closed. Lack of Mammoths customers.

Guess they were a couple decades too earlier.

Re Mammoths as good to eat.

Just think of the slab of ribs with BarbeQue sauce you could get off of one of those babies.

Hey Sarah: Want to go hunting?

[Rebelbase]

"Forget the duck and mango salsa, I'll have the Mammoth filet"

[tet68]

We should make the Mammoth the mascot of the Tea party.
Hell of a lot more intimidating than an ole elephant.

[Flag_This]

"Hold on - - this is no species that was obliterated by deforestation or the building of a dam. Dinosaurs Mammoths had their shot. Nature selected them for extinction."

[P-Marlowe]

I read a Clive Cussler Book where this was the premise.

[Liberty Valance]

There goes the neighborhood ...

[fieldmarshaldj]

You’d think these dumbasses would’ve learned after “Jurassic Park.”

[Larry Lucido]

Maybe they can fertize a mouse egg with mammoth DNA and get a medium-sized mammoth. (A mammouse?)

[Iron Munro]

Mammoth 'could be reborn in four years'

Insert image of Michelle Obama here.

[Grizzled Bear]

Fire up the grill! We’re gonna have the mother of all barbeques!