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DNA scholars hope to stock Siberia 'park' with mammoths
Japan Times ^
| August 20, 2002
| JULIAN RYALL
Posted on 08/22/2002 9:12:32 AM PDT by Korth
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posted on
08/22/2002 9:12:33 AM PDT
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Korth
To: Korth
And, what of Godzilla, sleeping peacefully all these years a few miles outside Tokyo Bay ?
To: Korth
Osaka's Kinki University LIVING UP TO THEIR NAME
1- Transplanted a spinach gene into a pig to change the animal's fat into less fatty linoleic acid. The result is healthier pork products.
2- Uncovering these creatures in the process -- as a result of global warming.
3- DNA from the Siberian tiger, steppe lions, giant deer, ancient foxes and the ancestors of the Siberian horse, as well as mammoths and woolly rhinos.
Actually, I think this is pretty cool. I would love to see Wooly Mammoths live instead of just the pictures.
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posted on
08/22/2002 9:27:13 AM PDT
by
Lokibob
To: Korth
"Iritani said one of the goals of his quest is to draw attention to the fact that the permafrost is melting -- uncovering these creatures in the process -- as a result of global warming."
Which is a common natural phenomenon in the cycle of life occuring on planets. Something my SUV doesnt have any impact on.
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posted on
08/22/2002 9:30:26 AM PDT
by
smith288
To: smith288
Folks who adopt the "global warming" story are called "Liberals." They believe there is a group of very intellegent people put on the Earth to write rules for the rest of us and (they hope) take care of our needs.
Mind if I sit this one out ?
To: Korth
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posted on
08/22/2002 9:48:25 AM PDT
by
Consort
To: Korth
There's lots of other interesting animals (and some plants) which could be reconstituted. Sabertooth tigers, moas, marsupial wolves, ginkgo relatives come to mind.
To: Post Toasties
marsupial wolves The Tasmanian Tiger? They're working on this right now. There is a pup in Australia that has been perfectly preserved in alcohol -- great source for the DNA. The surrogate mother is to be a bandicoot.
I'm suprised no ones tried for a dodo yet...
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posted on
08/22/2002 10:12:03 AM PDT
by
jae471
To: Korth
I'm just waiting 'till I can get one of those big mammoth ribs that knock over F. Flintstone's car!
To: jae471
That's it.
To: Eric in the Ozarks
Obviously, there was some massive, extremely quick, global cooling if all these creatures were frozen in such a well-preserved state. My hunch is, the Siberian climate was a lot warmer than even our current "global warming" has managed to acheive. If successful, this park will have a park-full of dead animals after the first winter. The idea of wolly mammoths roaming around in Arctic cold is probably just fiction.
To: Korth
The whole article is suspect because the refer to the animals as "Dinosaurs" These animals are mammals not dinosaurs. Could be a translation error, could be poor research.
To: Jimer
Could you please tell me how you managed to post Cyrillic letters? Is there some special software you used or what?
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posted on
08/22/2002 12:32:36 PM PDT
by
Korth
To: Korth
Could you please tell me how you managed to post Cyrillic letters? Is there some special software you used or what?It can be done with character maps or a Cyrillic font or with special software, etc.
In this case, I went to an on-line Russian Translator and entered "Jurassic Park" (without the quotes) and got the translation. Then I pressed the SHIFT and PRINT SCREEN buttons at the same time to get a COPY of the screen containing the translation. Then used Lview Pro or Irfan View or other image viewer to PASTE the COPYed screen image so that I could use the CROP feature to eliminate what I didn't want. Then I SAVEd the image to my hard drive. You would then use whatever means you have to post it on this web site.
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posted on
08/22/2002 12:58:33 PM PDT
by
Consort
To: Korth
...also, I used an image of the Cyrillic translation because I couldn't get it to display as a non-image, which would require using the HTML feature to invoke a Cyrillic font on this web site which it probably doesn't have. I think that's correct.
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posted on
08/22/2002 1:07:12 PM PDT
by
Consort
To: jae471
they did. Ex- president Bill Clinton was the first dodo since the original extinction.BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
To: Korth
Oops! Change HTML feature to HTML <font face=".....">
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posted on
08/22/2002 1:10:22 PM PDT
by
Consort
To: Conan the Librarian
A group of creationists in Columbus OH claim to have found frozen dinosaur carcasses in a remote area of Alaska. No kidding. Maybe dinosaurs will be next.
To: Korth
Clone the Founding Fathers!
And give them guns...
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posted on
08/22/2002 2:29:34 PM PDT
by
DWSUWF
To: Korth
This is exciting. When I was a boy a few decades ago I never dreamed I might see such animals alive again in my lifetime.
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