Scientists discover 43,000 year old Wooly Mammoth (1 Viewer)

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http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/scientists-have-good-chance-successfully-cloning-43000-year-old-woolly-mammoth-1440320

Scientists have claimed they have a "good chance" of cloning a woolly mammoth which has been frozen for the past 43,000 years.

The international team of scientists at the North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk, Siberia, believe they can extract DNA taken from the blood of the animal to mix it with that of an elephant.

The team, made up of scientists from several countries including Russia, US, UK, South Korea and Denmark, said the DNA taken from the autopsy could provide the perfect material for cloning.

Radik Khayrullin, vice president of the Russian Association of Medical Anthropologists, added the team must be responsible if they decide to in effect bring the woolly mammoth back to life.

"The data we are about to receive will give us a high chance to clone the mammoth," he told the Siberian Times.

"We must have a reason to do this, as it is one thing to clone it for scientific purpose, and another to clone for the sake of curiosity."

He added that if the process was successful, the animal would be different to the mammal which became extinct around 4,000 to 10,000 years ago.

"It will be a different mammoth to the one living 43,000 years ago, specially taking into account that there will be interbreeding with a female elephant."

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The team are said to be looking for a female Asian elephant whose egg they can inject the cloned material from the woolly mammoth with.

Semyon Grigoriev, head of the Museum of Mammoths of the Institute of Applied Ecology of the North at the North Eastern Federal University, said the cloning process may prove difficult as the evolutionary paths of the elephant and mammoth split many years ago.

Viktoria Egorova, chief of the Research and Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory of the Medical Clinic of North-Eastern Federal University, described her surprise at how well-preserved the body was after tens of thousands of years.

"We have dissected the soft tissues of the mammoth - and I must say that we didn't expect such results," she said.

"The carcass that is more than 43,000 years old has preserved better than a body of a human buried for six months.

"The tissue cut clearly shows blood vessels with strong walls. Inside the vessels there is haemolysed blood, where for the first time we have found erythrocytes. Muscle and adipose tissues are well preserved.

"We have also obtained very well-visualised migrating cells of the lymphoid tissue, which is another great discovery."

The mammoth was discovered in May 2013 on the Mally Lyakhovsky Island, off the northern coast of Siberia.

 

[Scoresman]

I say clone it. If you're against this for religious reasons, #### you.

 

[Rayderr]

What could go wrong?

 

[Maurile Tremblay]

Do people say "different to" (rather than "different from") in the UK? I'd never noticed that before.

 

[shader]

Clone it!

 

[Drifter]

I thought with cloning techniques they cleared out the DNA of the host egg and replaced it with just the DNA of the subject being cloned? This seems like they are actually attempting inter-breeding using the elephant DNA and the mammoth DNA

 

[Kevrunner]

"The carcass that is more than 43,000 years old has preserved better than a body of a human buried for six months."

They have to try and clone it, they couldn't ask for a better specimen.

 

[BustedKnuckles]

How is this possible....the earth is only 6,000 years old

 

[Leroy Hoard]

What could go wrong?

Just don't try to make a sweater out of it.

 

[Jayrok]

Hold on to your butts

 

[-jb-]

First, they came for our peanuts, and we said nothing.

 

[kutta]

How is this possible....the earth is only 6,000 years old

God is just making the little guy look old in order to fool us. He does it all the time.And our dating methods are unreliable because scientists don't really know what they are doing.

 

[fatness]

Was the mammoth on an Malaysian airline?

 

[Binky The Doormat]

How is this possible....the earth is only 6,000 years old

Baby jeebus put it there to test our faith. You ain't foolin' me - EVILutionists!!!!

 

[Maurile Tremblay]

Sounds delicious.

 

[Controller]

These scientists are too late.

Khloe Kardashian already exists.

 

[Leeroy Jenkins]

Clone it.

 

[Carolina Hustler]

I want to see a living mammoth.. If they can clone it, do it..

 

[BustedKnuckles]

I want to see a living mammoth.. If they can clone it, do it..

clone it...give it life ...then stick it in a zoo for our viewing pleasure

 

[rockaction]

Will it have Ray Romano's voice? If so, I say let it have the noble extinction that it did.

 

[Carolina Hustler]

I want to see a living mammoth.. If they can clone it, do it..

clone it...give it life ...then stick it in a zoo for our viewing pleasure

EXACTLY!!

 

[Carolina Hustler]

After they finish cross breading the mammoth with an elephant, I want to see a 3 headed giraffe..

 

[Pots]

I want to see a living mammoth.. If they can clone it, do it..

clone it...give it life ...then stick it in a zoo for our viewing pleasure

This. We need more of this!

 

[lod01]

These scientists are too late.

Khloe Kardashian already exists.

Clone it, the wooly mammoth that is.

 

[jon_mx]

Sounds delicious.

Christo is drooling over the thought of a mammoth butt steak. Especially a wolly one.

 

[Juxtatarot]

There is certainly reason to clone it. A traveling woolly mammoth to various zoos would be a huge money maker.

 

[Carolina Hustler]

I wish they would clone a cave woman, that secs would be pretty wild

 

[sports_fan]

I want to see a living mammoth.. If they can clone it, do it..

clone it...give it life ...then stick it in a zoo for our viewing pleasure

EXACTLY!!

NO!!! Release it into the wild without doing any research on how it could affect the ecosystem. Just put it somewhere with boring animals to liven the region up a bit.

 

[Rayderr]

I wish they would clone a cave woman, that secs would be pretty wild

Khloe Kardashian already exists.

 

[comfortably numb]

Mammoth bacon. Hmmmmmmm

 

[tri-man 47]

I'm pretty sure woolly mammoths are natural enemies of pythons. They should clone a few mammoths and put them in the Everglades. Problem solved.

 

[Don Quixote]

Let's not be L-7. Clone it.

 

[mquinnjr]

Let's not be L-7. Clone it.

Don't release the monkeys: they're infected - with Rage! You have no idea what you're doing!!!

28 days later...

 

[buck naked]

If you're against this for religious reasons, #### you.

Why even go there? Was that necessary?

 

[jon_mx]

If you're against this for religious reasons, #### you.

Why even go there? Was that necessary?

It is the only place he knows to go.

 

[Scoresman]

If you're against this for religious reasons, #### you.

Why even go there? Was that necessary?

Religion and Conservative "values" are usually the reason good scientific things like this are "controversial".

 

[Carolina Hustler]

If you're against this for religious reasons, #### you.

Why even go there? Was that necessary?

Religion and Conservative "values" are usually the reason good scientific things like this are "controversial".

No matter the thread, Scoreman will poison it with his religious or political attacks.. He did the same thing in the wireless electricity thread..

 

[Ministry of Pain]

Unfrozen Lawyer Caveman needed a sidekick for sure.

 

[fatness]

Mammoth poaching will be huge.

 

[phrozen]

they should turn it into Robo Mammoth and turn its tusks into cannons and its trunk into a machine gun. That thing would destroy crime one criminal at a time.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

These scientists are too late.

Khloe Kardashian already exists.

True story, Kris went camping without her husband exactly 9 months before Khloe was born.