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2021-09-14 Science & Technology
The return of the woolly mammoth! Ice Age species could be brought back from extinction to fight CLIMATE CHANGE as scientists raise $15m to grow embryos in the lab using DNA from a 42,000-year old carcass
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Posted by Skidmark 2021-09-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ]  Top

#1 I seen dis movie before; it does not end well...
Posted by Raj 2021-09-14 00:38||   2021-09-14 00:38|| Front Page Top

#2 The program — not the first to imagine mammoth 'de-extinction' — is being pitched as a way to help conserve Asian elephants by tweaking them to suit life in the Arctic.

The team also claimed that introducing the hybrids into the Arctic steppe might help restore the degraded habitat and fight some of the impacts of climate change.

Can't get no funding if you can't fight climate change.
Posted by Bobby 2021-09-14 07:37||   2021-09-14 07:37|| Front Page Top

#3 But will Safari Club International be able to auction off a spears only mammoth hunt at their banquets every year?
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-09-14 07:56||   2021-09-14 07:56|| Front Page Top

#4 Four foot long spears, fire hardened wood tips. Forty armed people to a party. Sell tickets of the video.
Posted by Don Vito Darling of the Poles3083 2021-09-14 08:40||   2021-09-14 08:40|| Front Page Top

#5 I was actually hoping for foam rubber tipped spears.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-09-14 09:15||   2021-09-14 09:15|| Front Page Top

#6 Mammoth poop solves Climate Change? Who knew?
Posted by CrazyFool 2021-09-14 09:29||   2021-09-14 09:29|| Front Page Top

#7 Russia major exporter of ivory?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-09-14 09:33||   2021-09-14 09:33|| Front Page Top

#8 Forget Mammoths. I want a 6" tall fire breathing T-Rex.
Posted by Angstrom 2021-09-14 10:22||   2021-09-14 10:22|| Front Page Top

#9 "tweaking them to suit life in the Arctic"
So they can be hunted by the vanishing polar bear?
Wait, I thought gerbil worming was going to destroy the polar...
I'm so confused.
Posted by ed in texas 2021-09-14 10:44||   2021-09-14 10:44|| Front Page Top

#10 Maybe they fart less than cows.
Posted by Skidmark 2021-09-14 10:45||   2021-09-14 10:45|| Front Page Top

#11 N'komo, bring up the Rigby, quickly man!
Posted by Cesare 2021-09-14 12:31||   2021-09-14 12:31|| Front Page Top

#12 And they'll catch some form of disease that current wildlife have some form of resistance to, having been exposed to it for 35,000 years or so.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2021-09-14 14:03||   2021-09-14 14:03|| Front Page Top

#13 Bring it on
Wooly Mammoth Suits
for Everyone.

Posted by Hupoluting Tingle3166 2021-09-14 14:14||   2021-09-14 14:14|| Front Page Top

#14 Why not go all in and make them wildly carnivorous lovers of man-flesh.
Posted by swksvolFF 2021-09-14 18:56||   2021-09-14 18:56|| Front Page Top

#15 That what I was thinking. They would last perhaps a week in the wild and then die from the common cold or something.
Posted by CrazyFool 2021-09-14 19:08||   2021-09-14 19:08|| Front Page Top

#16 #4 - Where will we find spear chuckers in Siberia?

*ducks*
Posted by Frank G 2021-09-14 20:49||   2021-09-14 20:49|| Front Page Top

#17 If they can pull it off, the Endangered Species Act is suddenly made irrelevant. Get the samples now and bring back later.
Posted by Procopius2k 2021-09-14 20:52||   2021-09-14 20:52|| Front Page Top

#18  Where will we find spear chuckers in Siberia?

Heh. As I understand it, the mammoth hunters used thick stabbing spears, tipped with a flint point. Freshly flaked flint is as sharp as a razor. If you have never seen a big Clovis point, they are a thing of beauty.

The only mammoth I've ever been near was stuffed, but it seems to me that walking up to something that big and poking it with a stick is a fairly ballsy move. Bring a bunch of friends, if only to drag your trampled carcass back to camp.
Posted by SteveS 2021-09-14 21:27||   2021-09-14 21:27|| Front Page Top

#19 Nah, if we're hunting mammoths, I want a Ma Deuce.

You can use spears if you want, I'll sitting with Ma, waiting.
Posted by Silentbrick 2021-09-14 22:41||   2021-09-14 22:41|| Front Page Top

#20 I seen dis movie before; it does not end well...

I think there was a sluggy freelance storyline about this, it went about like you'd expect.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2021-09-14 22:57||   2021-09-14 22:57|| Front Page Top

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