Woolly Mammoth will likely re-walk the earth in 4-5 years.

[mrk]

Yep,

A professor named Atari Akari has fine tuned a method to isolate and clone usable DNA from frozen tissue, something that was previously not possible.

The article is here:
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/offbeat/8668696/mammoth-job-of-re-creation/
And here:
http://www.dailytech.com/Woolly+Mammoth+Could+Walk+the+Earth+Again+in+4+Years+/article20666.htm

Dinosaur Overlord fantasists can pipe down though, as the .au article reports, there are no usable tissue samples to clone a Dino available and even if it was possible, they'd not live long TBH given the drastic change in Oxygen levels and Atmosphere from 65 million years ago ;p

Now all we need is a Woolly Squirrel.....and some nuts ¬_¬

 

[Lysander]

It was only a matter of time before this happened. It's been on the cards for a while.

 

[sigma]

Dinosaur Overlord fantasists can pipe down though, as the .au article reports, there are no usable tissue samples to clone a Dino available and even if it was possible, they'd not live long TBH given the drastic change in Oxygen levels and Atmosphere from 65 million years ago ;p

Until the day we find frozen dinosaur remains and keep them alive in controlled lab conditions. They will then mutate and take over the world, NASA as behind it.

 

[Cosimo]

I wait with baited breath for our woolly mammoth overlords.

 

[mrk]

I think it's great news, it does mean the current number of near extinct animals can have their DNA archived so if they do die out then they can be restored!

Kind of a futuristic Noah's Ark.....

But who will restore archived human DNS if all humans become extinct :O

 

[Gilly]

But who will restore archived human DNS if all humans become extinct :O

DNS would be a restore from backup.

DNA would be the hyper-intelligent pan-galactic beings known colloquially as 'mice'.

 

[mrk]

Typo!

I have been working with DNS records this week so I have DNS coming out of every orifice

 

[.Ox.]

Are they going to be kept in Zoo's?

 

[Greenlizard0]

What is the fascination with playing with old DNA with the purpose of resurrecting the animals in question? They died out before man really took over the planet leave them dead. Jurassic Park was a fun movie, but that's it really.

 

[~>Dg<~]

hope they taste nice

 

[Prophet]

Are they going to be kept in Zoo's?

No, I believe they'll be allowed to roam around freely like back in the good old days.

 

[Lysander]

What is the fascination with playing with old DNA with the purpose of resurrecting the animals in question? They died out before man really took over the planet leave them dead. Jurassic Park was a fun movie, but that's it really.

I would ****ing love to see a woolly mammoth. Aren't you interested in seeing one?

 

[Lysander]

hope they taste nice

This has already been done. Years ago some scientists sampled mammoth steak and said it tasted awful.

 

[Cosimo]

hope they taste nice

Mammuthus primigenius steaks, nom nom nom.

 

[Greenlizard0]

I would ****ing love to see a woolly mammoth. Aren't you interested in seeing one?

...didn't quite see it like that.

Yes I would, have to see a blue whale first though.

 

[LOAM]

Pets for everyone, ditch your cars, ride to work on a mammoth.

 

[div0]

This has already been done. Years ago some scientists sampled mammoth steak and said it tasted awful.

I'm pretty sure any 10,000 year old steak would taste pretty terrible, even if it had been preserved in ice.

 

[Casdawer]

Would be quite cool...

 

[ntg]

I would ****ing love to see a woolly mammoth. Aren't you interested in seeing one?

+1
I think bringing extinct animals like mammoths and dinos back to life would be the most exciting thing to ever witness (and of course space travel/alien civilisations).

 

[Cosimo]

Would be quite cool...

Very much so.