Scientists (do those guys ever take a break?) say that they have the mean and the tech to recreate the Wooly Mammoth that went extinct even before mankind started driving SUVs. A lot of environmentalists have split their opinion (not really, they all got the memo and speak with one voice) about recreating an animal that weighs a few tons, eats a lot, farts a lot, and absolutely refuses to condition their hair. Present day wooly mammoth Ray Romano refused to comment.
My take is that if mankind can return an extinct species to life then all bets are off. We make anything extinct and then start fresh. We could all have a tiger pelt in our bedroom just like Charlie Sheen. Not just any tiger but an albino Siberian tiger.
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/...wooly-mammoth/
- JD Barleycorn
- 08-02-2013, 11:08 AM
- I B Hankering
- 08-02-2013, 11:31 AM
Read this in April:
Bringing Them Back to Life
The revival of an extinct species is no longer a fantasy.
But is it a good idea?
By Carl Zimmer
On July 30, 2003, a team of Spanish and French scientists reversed time. They brought an animal back from extinction, if only to watch it become extinct again. The animal they revived was a kind of wild goat known as a bucardo, or Pyrenean ibex. The bucardo (Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica) was a large, handsome creature, reaching up to 220 pounds and sporting long, gently curved horns. For thousands of years it lived high in the Pyrenees, the mountain range that divides France from Spain, where it clambered along cliffs, nibbling on leaves and stems and enduring harsh winters.
Then came the guns. Hunters drove down the bucardo population over several centuries. In 1989 Spanish scientists did a survey and concluded that there were only a dozen or so individuals left. Ten years later a single bucardo remained: a female nicknamed Celia. A team from the Ordesa and Monte Perdido National Park, led by wildlife veterinarian Alberto Fernández-Arias, caught the animal in a trap, clipped a radio collar around her neck, and released her back into the wild. Nine months later the radio collar let out a long, steady beep: the signal that Celia had died. They found her crushed beneath a fallen tree. With her death, the bucardo became officially extinct.
But Celia’s cells lived on, preserved in labs in Zaragoza and Madrid. Over the next few years a team of reproductive physiologists led by José Folch injected nuclei from those cells into goat eggs emptied of their own DNA, then implanted the eggs in surrogate mothers. After 57 implantations, only seven animals had become pregnant. And of those seven pregnancies, six ended in miscarriages. But one mother—a hybrid between a Spanish ibex and a goat—carried a clone of Celia to term. Folch and his colleagues performed a cesarean section and delivered the 4.5-pound clone. As Fernández-Arias held the newborn bucardo in his arms, he could see that she was struggling to take in air, her tongue jutting grotesquely out of her mouth. Despite the efforts to help her breathe, after a mere ten minutes Celia’s clone died. A necropsy later revealed that one of her lungs had grown a gigantic extra lobe as solid as a piece of liver. There was nothing anyone could have done. . . .
Though the revival of a mammoth or a passenger pigeon is no longer mere fantasy, the reality is still years away. For another extinct species, the time frame may be much shorter. Indeed, there’s at least a chance it may be back among the living before this story is published.
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/20...al/zimmer-text
Bringing Them Back to Life
The revival of an extinct species is no longer a fantasy.
But is it a good idea?
By Carl Zimmer
On July 30, 2003, a team of Spanish and French scientists reversed time. They brought an animal back from extinction, if only to watch it become extinct again. The animal they revived was a kind of wild goat known as a bucardo, or Pyrenean ibex. The bucardo (Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica) was a large, handsome creature, reaching up to 220 pounds and sporting long, gently curved horns. For thousands of years it lived high in the Pyrenees, the mountain range that divides France from Spain, where it clambered along cliffs, nibbling on leaves and stems and enduring harsh winters.
Then came the guns. Hunters drove down the bucardo population over several centuries. In 1989 Spanish scientists did a survey and concluded that there were only a dozen or so individuals left. Ten years later a single bucardo remained: a female nicknamed Celia. A team from the Ordesa and Monte Perdido National Park, led by wildlife veterinarian Alberto Fernández-Arias, caught the animal in a trap, clipped a radio collar around her neck, and released her back into the wild. Nine months later the radio collar let out a long, steady beep: the signal that Celia had died. They found her crushed beneath a fallen tree. With her death, the bucardo became officially extinct.
But Celia’s cells lived on, preserved in labs in Zaragoza and Madrid. Over the next few years a team of reproductive physiologists led by José Folch injected nuclei from those cells into goat eggs emptied of their own DNA, then implanted the eggs in surrogate mothers. After 57 implantations, only seven animals had become pregnant. And of those seven pregnancies, six ended in miscarriages. But one mother—a hybrid between a Spanish ibex and a goat—carried a clone of Celia to term. Folch and his colleagues performed a cesarean section and delivered the 4.5-pound clone. As Fernández-Arias held the newborn bucardo in his arms, he could see that she was struggling to take in air, her tongue jutting grotesquely out of her mouth. Despite the efforts to help her breathe, after a mere ten minutes Celia’s clone died. A necropsy later revealed that one of her lungs had grown a gigantic extra lobe as solid as a piece of liver. There was nothing anyone could have done. . . .
Though the revival of a mammoth or a passenger pigeon is no longer mere fantasy, the reality is still years away. For another extinct species, the time frame may be much shorter. Indeed, there’s at least a chance it may be back among the living before this story is published.
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/20...al/zimmer-text
- i'va biggen
- 08-02-2013, 11:35 AM
Two guys who can bring bullshit back to life JD & IB..
- Yssup Rider
- 08-02-2013, 11:37 AM
- CJ7
- 08-02-2013, 11:40 AM
snick
- Jewish Lawyer
- 08-02-2013, 12:04 PM
Scientists (do those guys ever take a break?) say that they have the mean and the tech to recreate the Wooly Mammoth that went extinct even before mankind started driving SUVs. A lot of environmentalists have split their opinion (not really, they all got the memo and speak with one voice) about recreating an animal that weighs a few tons, eats a lot, farts a lot, and absolutely refuses to condition their hair. Present day wooly mammoth Ray Romano refused to comment.If we can do that, then we don't need to waste money preserving species that should go extinct, like liberals. If we miss them, we could bring them back.
My take is that if mankind can return an extinct species to life then all bets are off. We make anything extinct and then start fresh. We could all have a tiger pelt in our bedroom just like Charlie Sheen. Not just any tiger but an albino Siberian tiger.
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/...wooly-mammoth/ Originally Posted by JD Barleycorn
- Guest040616
- 08-02-2013, 08:59 PM