the mighty mammoth shall walk the earth again!

[Tyrannis]

Or a zoo?

does seem fair to the animal to bring it back from extinction just to force it to live in captivity.

[mechanic]

not existing is hardly better than any form of life, even captivity 

[mthrockmor]

What this really means for the Southern red neck crowd is.....just another hunt'n season. Hooooyaaahhhh

haha 

Boo

[Tyrannis]

What this really means for the Southern red neck crowd is.....just another hunt'n season. Hooooyaaahhhh

haha 

Boo

this type of attitude is why they went extinct in the first place.

[Bruv119]

Interesting find. Sooner or later, though, we'll be cloning ourselves. Just imagine the controversy with that. Humans playing "God".

didn't you see a film with ewan McGregor and scarlett johansson  ? where they kept all the human clones in a facility and when the real world you needed a new lung/kidney/ arm   etc   they would just hack it off the clone.


another thought I wonder how much a scarlett johansson clone would cost to keep in the basement    

[ROX]

There are plenty of mammoth sites in NE Siberia where it almost seems the animals were "flash frozen" somehow.  Back in the early 1970's scientists said that they had been frozen so quickly that the meats was indeed edible.  

It would be cool to replicate them via DNA and see how they interact, etc.

It would be wild to see if they did, if the animal would exibit the same instincts, fears, food preferences, etc. that it did millennia ago.

[Tyrannis]

There are plenty of mammoth sites in NE Siberia where it almost seems the animals were "flash frozen" somehow.  Back in the early 1970's scientists said that they had been frozen so quickly that the meats was indeed edible.  

It would be cool to replicate them via DNA and see how they interact, etc.

It would be wild to see if they did, if the animal would exibit the same instincts, fears, food preferences, etc. that it did millennia ago.

did you read the link provided? it clearly says that they would be extracting dna from those mammoths frozon on russian labs,etc but i wonder how the mammoths got there in the first place, i allways concidered them north american animals.(unless they crossed over to russia from alaska, of course.

[curry1]

Oh yeah, can't put them in Africa cos of 'the heat'...screw the African farmers 

Im offended no one picked up on this joke.  This is funny.

[Motherland]

did you read the link provided? it clearly says that they would be extracting dna from those mammoths frozon on russian labs,etc but i wonder how the mammoths got there in the first place, i allways concidered them north american animals.(unless they crossed over to russia from alaska, of course.

Same way Eskimos live in Siberia and Northern Canada/Alaska...

[oakranger]

This could bring a negative impact to the ecosystem and the animal.  Reintroducing a +5,000 year old extinct animal may not survived with today climate, let alone, fighting off the diseases that it's body is not immune too.  Another issue that can be a problem is the vegetation to support it.  Dose it forage on C3 or C4 plants? What is the vegetation composed as far as nutrient, minerals, and will today vegetation have any fungus/chemical that can do more harm the the mammoth?

[Tyrannis]

Same way Eskimos live in Siberia and Northern Canada/Alaska...

waset that because of the icebridge that extended from russia to alaska? as i stated.

[fbWldcat]

I'd say they would be released into Canada, Iceland, Greenland, Northern Siberia and maybe even experiment and put some in the Hilamalayas. That would be my guess. But to have a living, thriving population of an animal which went extinct tens of thousands of years ago with no natural predators, might pose a problem. Sure, in Canada, you may have bears and wolves and all sorts of other goodies, but the truth is that the only way to really regulate their numbers would be to have a hunting season, whether you like it or not (unless bears prove to be a formidable foe to the mammoths). I see they being released into the wild if it goes according to plan, not just stuck in a zoo. Is there even food for them anymore? Can we bring saber-toothed tigers back as well? Saber-toothed cats? Giant sloths? Early horses?

[Tyrannis]

I'd say they would be released into Canada, Iceland, Greenland, Northern Siberia and maybe even experiment and put some in the Hilamalayas. That would be my guess. But to have a living, thriving population of an animal which went extinct tens of thousands of years ago with no natural predators, might pose a problem. Sure, in Canada, you may have bears and wolves and all sorts of other goodies, but the truth is that the only way to really regulate their numbers would be to have a hunting season, whether you like it or not (unless bears prove to be a formidable foe to the mammoths). I see they being released into the wild if it goes according to plan, not just stuck in a zoo. Is there even food for them anymore? Can we bring saber-toothed tigers back as well? Saber-toothed cats? Giant sloths? Early horses?

clone some T.rexes then release them into the wild,that'll solve your "predator" problem   

[Penguin]

...if its furry and soft, i'm sure my 4 year old daughter wants to have one for Christmas!
she likes Dinos anyway

Are you sure you know what a mastodon is?  It's about the size of an elephant, this isn't some teddy bear we're talking about here.

-Penguin

[greens]

Are you sure you know what a mastodon is?  It's about the size of an elephant, this isn't some teddy bear we're talking about here.

-Penguin

BIGGER!! i find mastadon fossils on occasion. worth some money if u find a big chunk of it. what kinda dufusy scientists r in china anyway