Japan looks to clone Mammoth in 5 years

[TSD]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110117/wl_asia_afp/japansciencemammoth_20110117104445#mwpphu-container





Before everyone gets bent out of shape like most of the yahoo comments. I think i saw like 80 people say "havent they seen jurrasic park?!".



Mammoths were not much larger than modern Asian Elephants. Human beings lived alongside the likes of Sabertooth Tiger, Dire Wolves, The short faced bear (the largest predatory land mammal ever), the American Lion, Giant Sloths, and of course the Mammoth.



It is even Hypothesized that humans (with nothing but stone and bone tools at the time) contributed to the demise of most of the earths Mega Fauna. So one Mammoth isn't going to get loose and lay waste to the planet.

 

[sth]

This would be very interesting. They have talked about it for a while. Actually TSD one theory is that our ancestors would push boulders off of cliffs to crush Mammoths as they walked below. Kind of like buffalo jumps around here.

 

[sth]

Bri says thanks for posting. She counts on you to keep her informed on all the important nerd stuff.

 

[TSD]

Bri says thanks for posting. She counts on you to keep her informed on all the important nerd stuff.

She cant post herself?



and wouldn't a boulder technically qualify as a stone tool?(Albeit a very large and menacing one)

 

[supraman]

zzzzzzzzzz huh what? Oh they are going to clone hairy elephants wake me up when they clone something cool like a megaladon.

 

[Tater]

Isn't one Jako on earth is enough already?

 

[Ymono37]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110117/wl_asia_afp/japansciencemammoth_20110117104445#mwpphu-container





Before everyone gets bent out of shape like most of the yahoo comments. I think i saw like 80 people say "havent they seen jurrasic park?!".



Mammoths were not much larger than modern Asian Elephants. Human beings lived alongside the likes of Sabertooth Tiger, Dire Wolves, The short faced bear (the largest predatory land mammal ever), the American Lion, Giant Sloths, and of course the Mammoth.



It is even Hypothesized that humans (with nothing but stone and bone tools at the time) contributed to the demise of most of the earths Mega Fauna. So one Mammoth isn't going to get loose and lay waste to the planet.

No... not until they crossbreed like in all those SyFy movies... Mammopus! Crocomoth!

 

[JOVE23]

I'd be more impressed if they could jigger with the DNA to create enough individuals to have a sustainable breeding pool.

 

[MassHavoc]

Yes, but will it get along ok with the other animals in the petting zoo.

 

[sth]

That is true TSD about it being stone technology. But it still is a pretty complex attack. So I don't doubt we played a role. Of course their numbers were declining before humans. I read somewhere they were victims of global warming. When the ice age ended they lost a lot of habitat.

 

[Tater]

That is true TSD about it being stone technology. But it still is a pretty complex attack. So I don't doubt we played a role. Of course their numbers were declining before humans. I read somewhere they were victims of global warming. When the ice age ended they lost a lot of habitat.

But, but, but....I thought humans were responsible for that?!?!?



/derail

 

[MassHavoc]

But, but, but....I thought humans were responsible for that?!?!?



/derail

No, we are responsible for climate change. In case you didn't hear, Global Warming is completely different and not as profitable.

 

[Tater]

No, we are responsible for climate change. In case you didn't hear, Global Warming is completely different and not as profitable.

Point taken.

 

[bri]

This brings back many childhood memories when I knew the difference between a brachiosaurus and a brontosaurus and a dilophosaurus and a stegosaurus. Mammoths are kind of like Mastadons, right?

 

[sth]

This brings back many childhood memories when I knew the difference between a brachiosaurus and a brontosaurus and a dilophosaurus and a stegosaurus. Mammoths are kind of like Mastadons, right?

Yeah. I don't exactly know what the difference between them is. It might be size. But they are pretty much the same thing.

 

[Tater]

Which Hawk player most closely resemble a Stegosaurus and why?

 

[bri]

Which Hawk player most closely resemble a Stegosaurus and why?

Is there a real answer to this or do you just want our opinion? Eruns would be the IHN person most like one with his spiky mohawk.

 

[Tater]

Is there a real answer to this or do you just want our opinion? Eruns would be the IHN person most like one with his spiky mohawk.

Nah, no real answer. I just posted that because it's been to quiet in here lately.

 

[bri]

Nah, no real answer. I just posted that because it's been to quiet in here lately.

I would have said Hjalmarsson because he has a little head and so do they.

 

[TSD]

That is true TSD about it being stone technology. But it still is a pretty complex attack. So I don't doubt we played a role. Of course their numbers were declining before humans. I read somewhere they were victims of global warming. When the ice age ended they lost a lot of habitat.

The big question for scientists (I recently watched the prehistoric Predators National geographic series). Is that all of the mega fauna, died off toward the end but still during the last ice age. Also, these animals existed between ice ages in temperate climates as well, so unless there was some drastic climatic event, they aren't seeing, they don't understand how climate could be responsible.



grey wolves and dire wolves(bigger meaner and tougher wolves, they were pretty much better than the grey wolf in every way physically) inhabited the same areas yet, dire wolves died out and grey wolves survive today. The Giant sloth, sabertooth, short faced bear for some reason all of these species simply croaked(and they werent all adapted specifically for frigid climates, any more than a grizzly bear, again which also existed at that time(another example, the short faced bear was a bigger, badder version of the grizzly, yet slightly slower).



and supraman, you may not need to bring a megaladon back, they may still exist, I think weve only explored like 20% of our ocean body or something. If they are gone I think they are gone for good, I dont even know how they determine what a megaladon would look like considering all we've found is teeth and a few vertebra.







Now heres a proposition. if we find viable neandrathal tissue do we take the leap and attempt the same thing they are doing with the mammoths?