A Mammoth Discovery

[Patticus 7,031]

 

Perfectly preserved 10,000 year old liquid blood from a Woolly Mammoth. The first time humanity has ever found such a thing, along with muscle tissue - perfectly preserved in the ice - from a Siberian mammoth. 

 

The blood had dripped out of the giant animal into a natural ice capsule and it represents a dream discovery for researchers. It comes amid a hotly contested debate on whether scientists should try to recreate the extinct species using DNA, though there now seems little doubt that this WILL happen, and the Russian team from Yakutsk that made the find is working in a partnership with South Korean scientists who are actively seeking to bring the mammoth back to life.

 

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http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/news/exclusive-the-first-pictures-of-blood-from-a-10000-year-old-siberian-woolly-mammoth/

 

We know what this means, gentlemen:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyCzDW_LRPk

[... 5,845]

So....

 

Ice Age Park, anyone?

[Dr. Homem 2,328]

Cloning mammoths, that's just silly. But if you drink it, you will turn into Mammoth-Man. The hairiest, and most ornery superhero there is.

[A Match in Oil Ocean Zone 1,393]

I'm wondering if Ray Ramano's blood will finally prove to those young-earth wackos that this rock has been here for more than three thousand years.

Edited May 30, 2013 by Deaf Guy in Music Plant

[Komodin 8,834]

Hm, I wonder if a mammoth, should it be ever be successfully "revived," would actually be able to survive in the present day...

[WarioBone 3,500]

Fuck mammoths.

 

Find me some T-Rex blood and we'll talk.

[super saiyan weegee 648]

Hm, I wonder if a mammoth, should it be ever be successfully "revived," would actually be able to survive in the present day...

Probably not in the wild, but in artificial environments, yes.

[Conando 3,964]

More like Pliocene Park, Patticus. Anyway, this definitely is quite the discovery. 

[Soniman 17,224]

Still don't completely get how some blood can manifest a entire Mammoth.

[Phos 1,093]

You insert the DNA into an egg cell to make a mammoth zygote.  

[Frogging101 1,082]

Still don't completely get how some blood can manifest a entire Mammoth.

I suppose the blood contains the mammoth's DNA which would be the entirety of its genetic code, which means that it could theoretically facilitate the growth of a mammoth. See cloning.

[Conando 3,964]

Still don't completely get how some blood can manifest a entire Mammoth.

All you need is the genetic code, which can be obtained from blood, and place it into the egg of say an elephant. That's how they clone things.

Edited May 30, 2013 by Wreck-It Ralph

[Gabz Girl 4,390]

Oh my this is incredible! I really hope it will be successful, so that we can finally see a real life woolly mammoth! Shame it's not a dinosaur or a cute little Dodo bird, but hey.

[Sean 4,852]

Oh fuck yes please revive a woolly mammoth, I love those things and I don't even normally care for elephants.

[Conando 3,964]

That scene from American Dad, where the Wooly Mammoth is brought back from the past by the CIA, is going through my head. Except with Sean instead of the CIA.

[Debug Ring 1,109]

It's fact that the Wooly Mammoth was in the world when the pyramids were built, so, yeah, a Sieberian Mammoth is likely to be able to as well. I do hope for a Mammoth revival, they're really cool animals, and it'd be awesome to have them roaming around today.

[Kuzu 18,657]

The government will grow Wooly Mammoth armies of death.

[KHCast 13,213]

I'm wondering if Ray Ramano's blood will finally prove to those young-earth wackos that this rock has been here for more than three thousand years.

I highly doubt this will end up disproving anything in the religious community. And even if it did, people would still believe.

[Abominal SnowTaz 677]

There's a Sonic Lost World joke here somewhere, but it 's a little too soon and somebody might beat me to it anyway...

[Tornado 18,139]

You guys are assholes for making the Ray Romano joke before I could.

 

 

Though mine was going to be "Not even the miracles of science could revive Ray Romano's career," then that one picture of Jeff Goldblum.

[Abominal SnowTaz 677]

You guys are assholes for making the Ray Romano joke before I could.

 

 

Though mine was going to be "Not even the miracles of science could revive Ray Romano's career," then that one picture of Jeff Goldblum.

Well to be fair, on a Sonic forum, it's all about speed.

 

Please don't kill me!

[Nepenthe 37,093]

Tusk, tusk people. Does every interesting thread have to devolve into puns these days?

 

I'm sorry, I tried my best. ;~;

 

Anyway, I always get giddy when I hear of discoveries like this. I love the thought of being able to see these extinct animals for myself. First mammoths, then the Tasmanian Tiger. Make it happen Science.

 

And as to the calls for dinos and dodos, hasn't it been confirmed that animals born from eggs cannot be revived with these kinds of methods?

[Abominal SnowTaz 677]

Tusk, tusk people. Does every interesting thread have to devolve into puns these days?

Now that mammoth joke needs a Ray of hope.

 

Okay last one I promise....

[KHCast 13,213]

....This is gonna turn into another Xbox One topic isn't it?

[Abominal SnowTaz 677]

....This is gonna turn into another Xbox One topic isn't it?

That topic was just a Mammoth fai- goddammit. Stop giving me material!