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Scientists to bring extinct woolly mammoth back to life with the help of elephants everynametaken Send a noteboard - 14/03/2012 04:18:52 AM
A group of South Korean and Russian scientists are planning to bring the woolly mammoth back to life, 10,000 years after the species went extinct. Using tissue samples from the specimens recovered in Siberia after global warming thawed the region's permafrost, the scientists will clone the huge, hairy prehistoric mammals.
In order to resurrect the massive species, the scientists will take an egg cell from an elephant, and remove the cell's nucleus, which is the part that contains most of the cell's genetic material. This will be replaced by a nucleus taken from the mammoth's somatic cell, effectively creating an egg cell that could one day develop into a baby mammoth. But before the researchers can actually do any of this, they first have to find tissues with undamaged genes, and restore the cells after thousands of years of being frozen.
Aside from this particular team of scientists, a researcher from Kyoto University also revealed his plan to resurrect the species. Woolly mammoths roamed the Earth as far back as 150,000 years ago, and went extinct due to climate change and hunting by early humans.

Hell's yeah! One step closer to bringing back the Woolly in my lifetime! Contain yourself Tom...
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Scientists to bring extinct woolly mammoth back to life with the help of elephants - 14/03/2012 04:18:52 AM 842 Views
My mammoth army will ride to VICTORY! - 14/03/2012 04:58:08 AM 544 Views
I bring the scientist, you bring the rock star *NM* - 14/03/2012 05:14:02 AM 317 Views
There is so much space out there in the Siberian plains - 14/03/2012 08:43:35 AM 478 Views
ugh. - 14/03/2012 04:10:14 PM 572 Views
Our zoos hardly suffer from a shortage of food. *NM* - 15/03/2012 07:19:36 AM 197 Views
First of all, yes, some zoos do. Secondly, woolly mammoths eat a LOT - 15/03/2012 12:06:47 PM 578 Views
They are still herbivores, they can't be that expensive to feed - 18/03/2012 10:16:22 PM 536 Views
Okay, let me take a look at the numbers. - 19/03/2012 01:13:09 AM 489 Views
Pragmatically then, the food bill itself is effectively minimal - 19/03/2012 01:50:11 AM 500 Views
heh. you're probably right. - 19/03/2012 02:21:14 AM 471 Views
Remember this moment in history.... - 14/03/2012 10:21:02 PM 496 Views
There's a big hole in their plan - 14/03/2012 10:31:21 PM 622 Views
I accidentally just f-bombed right in front of my mother. - 15/03/2012 02:39:06 AM 497 Views
Yes! All I need now is to miniaturize them. - 23/03/2012 06:23:04 PM 583 Views

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