Posted on 04/09/2019 10:45:39 AM PDT by Red Badger
JURASSIC Park got a little bit closer to reality today with news that scientists are confident' of cloning a 42,000 year old extinct species. ===============================================================
The ginger-coloured foal died when it was just one or two weeks old, some time during the late Stone Age, around 42,170 years ago.
But its body has been perfectly preserved in near perfect condition in Siberian permafrost, and scientists are optimistic that they will obtain enough genetic material to clone the animal and bring its extinct species back to life.
The joint Russian-South Korean research team is led by South Korean cloning expert Professor Hwang Woo-suk, who is also closely involved in efforts to revive the woolly mammoth using cells taken from features preserved in the Siberian ice.
The foal is an example of the cold-resistant Lenskaya breed which died out some 4,000 years ago.
CLONE: The perfectly-preserved body was found in the Batagai depression in Yakutia (Pic: The Siberian Times)
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MUMMY: A Yakut horse is one of the contenders to act as surrogate to the cloned creature
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"Researchers are confident of success of the project," said a source at the North East Federal University in Yakutsk - the worlds coldest city - which is hosting the work, reports The Siberian Times .
"The attempts will continue until the end of April this year.
Work is so advanced that the team are already selecting a surrogate mother for the ancient horse.
PRECEDENT: The experiment could pave the way for the reintroduction of the woolly mammoth (Pic: The Siberian Times)
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Russian researcher Dr Lena Grigoryeva said: "There are seven researchers involved in the project on the Korean side and everyone is positive about the outcome."
She said that once successfully cloned, the embryo will be implanted in a Korean horse.
"The Korean horse will fit in perfectly," she said. "They have been used in cloning for a while and the technology is mastered to perfection.
"Besides, the Korean horse is quite ancient too.
"It is a successor of Mongolian horse."
INTERNATIONAL: The team is a collaboration between Korean and Russian scientists (Pic: The Siberian Times)
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Another option under consideration is to use a Yakut horse - a breed native to eastern Siberia which succeeded the Lenskaya species.
Yakut horses are a hardy breed which can survive temperatures as low as minus 60ºC.
Well, critter was likely an herbivore. Don’t think there’s too much to worry about behavior-wise.
Imagine if an actual dinosaur is found in permafrost.
My tagline coming truer everyday.
Yup, sooner or later they’ll find “The Thing from Another World”.
Bring back t-rex and the saber toothed tiger!
That's the sort thing I was hinting at, and maybe a mastodon or two. Sooner or later, I'd bet some other well preserved ancient creatures will be found.
Thanks Red Badger. The mane thing to remember is, cloning extinct species was very unpopular, according to a gallop poll.
It is conjectured that there was a sudden cold spell that killed many Pleistocene era creatures and preserved their bodies in Siberia’s permafrost. The cold spell could have been due to meteorite impacts or an especially sharp turn toward a cold climactic phase from one of the planet’s recognized climactic cycles.
De-extinction has been discussed for years. It looks like one of the methods - not reviving old DNA a la Jurassic Park but getting the info and then gene editing the DNA from a related species that still exists could well happen soon.
I dont see the problem with bringing a species back - especially not if it was humans who made the species extinct in the first place.
So, what was the temperature before the sudden freeze?
According to globull climate change extortionists, there was never a warm area up there in Siberia, because it was always covered in snow and ice. (Just like Antarctica, Greenland, Alaska, etc.
Will you be here all week?
Methinks that area was much warmer then. There's a whole cottage industry about Earth either tilting its axis due to some external force or Crustal Displacement. Some of it makes more sense than the theory of Uniformitarianism.
The real scientists have convincing evidence from sunspot cycles that we are entering a solar minimum like the one that caused the Little Ice Age-and the climate around here is slowly but surely getting cooler-based on that, re-introducing a horse that can live and be utilized for transportation and work in a frigid climate makes sense-more people in places like Alaska live in the outback/bush as self-supporting entrepreneurs than live in cities-I’d guess that a new breed of horse that thrives in extreme cold would be welcome-cheaper than a snow mobile, too...
The Yakutian horses are still alive and well...............
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakutian_horse
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