Can you say "Jurassic Park"?
 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110117...sciencemammoth

Someone better call Jeff Goldblum. :hmmm:

EDIT: Replaced link, last one had slight nudity.

Well it looks like I won't be asking Santa for a baby elephant any more... baby woolly mammoth FTW! :yeah:

With cloning and gene manipulation it was about to happen sooner or later. I just wonder what would happen to the natural order of things if prehistoric animals were allowed to multiply in today's world. :hmmm:

I don't see how anything could possibly go wro-

http://www.mondomaniatrics.com/blog/..._park_rex1.jpg

Japan+genetic technology=
http://pic.wenwen.soso.com/p/2009080...-982346616.jpg
:yeah:

I just last night watched the DVD boxed set of The Pacific with an all growed up Joe Mazello and here you are talking about Jurassic Park. Coincidence? :hmmm:

Normally I'd complain, but the new URL has JAPAN SCIENCE MAMMOTH in it :D

I wish they'd use that knowledge to clone insulin cells instead of @#$% dinosaurs.:shifty: It would do me a lot more good.

That's odd, I thought you were watching the game?:dead:

As long as they eat all the blood sucking lawyers first, we'll be fine.

John Hammond: Don't worry, I'm not making the same mistakes again.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: No, you're making all new ones.

Post game mood improvement. :DL

Great idea and while they are at it lets get the Dodo back in flight.:doh:

I kinda like the idea of naming one president, we might actually get some stuff done in Washington if we do. :rotfl2:

Does this sound to anyone else as though it wouldn't work without making serious genetic modifications to the mammoth? Wouldn't the mother's.... I mean parent 1's or 2's, or whatever's body reject the embryo? Well, not reject the embryo per se but end up toxifying or starving it? And that's assuming they even get it to a placental stage.

There's a reason why you can't make a chimp give birth to a human or killer whale to a bottlenose dolphin or what have you, and I don't mean some divine reason or the fact that it would be very....unnatural. Elephants and mammoths are pretty close from a genetic perspective, but they aren't that close. There's quite a bit of difficulty involved with implanting an embryo amongst members of the exact same species, and that's without having the zygote's chromosomal structure replaced by that of a species which has not been co-evolving for like, 10,000 years.

I must admit, I've never cloned an animal myself so I have to assume that these guys have some kind of workaround, but even so I can't help but get the feeling that somebody didn't think this through. Time will tell, but if their intent is to simply stick mammoth genes in an elephant cell, as the article puts it, I'm pretty dang sure this won't work.