Mammoth find: Preserved Ice Age giant found with flowing blood in Siberia

[Amp34]

I would be more concerned about whatever impact it would have on a modern Eco system, particularly with regard to disease, viruses and bacteria rather than whether its angry or not!

I doubt much, considering it is only 10,000 years old and is believed to have become extinct due to human influences.

Stick a few dozen around Siberia and I'm sure they will thrive, they may even improve the ecosystem bu reintroducing large mammals into the area.

 

[Amp34]

All for it, bet it tastes nice.

Bet it's really fatty and not particularly nice tasting TBH. Ever heard of elephant burgers? Thought not!

 

[Judgeneo]

Bet it's really fatty and not particularly nice tasting TBH. Ever heard of elephant burgers? Thought not!

Presumably because killing elephants is somewhat frowned upon.

 

[Amp34]

i dont see the point in it other than "cos we can" so lets do this.

http://www.rewildingeurope.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rewilding_(conservation_biology)

Just an extension of this IMO, which is a good thing!

 

[Amp34]

Presumably because killing elephants is somewhat frowned upon.

Yet you never hear of historic eating of Elephant either. I doubt it's just because of making it illegal. It's illegal to hunt whales but there are caveats in that. Either way It'd probably be a bit like whale, and almost no one wants to eat that either (Japan has huge stockpiles of the stuff it can't shift...)

 

[~Divine~Wind~]

you mean http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0487037/

Surely you mean This?

 

[robfosters]

Yes. Deffo clone it.

 

[theleg]

whats the worst that could happen? do it!

 

[Housey]

Maybe while genetically engineering them, we could make them roughly guinea pig sized?

Brilliant idea, also make them good at knocking up a curry on a Friday night!

 

[Craig1981]

Dr Grant. Welcome....to Mammoth Park! (spared no expense!)

*cue dramatic music*

 

[Fred]

I want a Micro Mammoth.

Small box you put in the microwave for a Mammoth snack in 2 mins! I'd buy that!

 

[ChocolateStarfishRammer]

I want it cloned.

And if its nothing like Manny from Ice Age..

Then it can walk its self to Tesco and get in my burgers.

 

[Castiel]

I doubt much, considering it is only 10,000 years old and is believed to have become extinct due to human influences..

they estimate 10k to 15k and they make no mention of human influence in its death, quite the contrary in fact. Also the often cited extinction and hunting of mammoths by man is now thought to be wrong as there is no current evidence that man hunted or ate Mammoths.

 

[bledd]

I'm a yes for this one, jurassic park, here we come!

This is what I came to post.

Rock on baby!

We'll spare no expense!

 

[Craig1981]

But what happens when the mammoths work out how to open doors and then eat Samuel L Jackson?!

WHY DOES NOBODY EVER THINK ABOUT SAMUEL L JACKSON!?!??!

 

[MarkeR]

Can anyone think of a certain movie & what happened in it???

Sure it was

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1397514/?ref_=sr_1

Except I think they were bog standard elephants!

 

[d_brennen]

I say do it. Running out of exotic meat to try

 

[Lysander]

This is all rubbish.

Every couple of years something like this comes along, "we nao haz the materialz to colne mamoth." Nothing happens. They've been saying it for decades.

 

[Edward78]

Sure it was

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1397514/?ref_=sr_1

Except I think they were bog standard elephants!

I was thinking Jurassic Park. ya they were dinosaurs, but cloning starts with other species.

 

[arknor]

You can't possibly state that as fact. Bacteria and viruses are capable of living in extreme conditions, it's completely plausible that the corpse was harboring some form of disease that has never been seen in the modern era.

did you know where the Antarctic snow has been melting something special has started to happen recently?

http://phys.org/news/2013-05-year-arctic-anew-glaciers-retreat.html

The team put 24 cultures in an ideal environment and found that 11 of them began to grow, representing four distinct taxa. The plants, known as bryophytes—moss, lichen, liverworts, etc—don't have vascular tissue to pump fluids, a property that helps them survive in very cold climates. Carbon dating of the samples showed that the plants had been living approximately 400 to 615 years ago—a time just before the Little Ice Age (1550-1850). Byrophytes have another property, called totipotency that allows any cell of the plant to reproduce and grow into a whole new plant.

Maybe we should go nuke all the melting polar ice caps just incase theres some bad bacteria down there about to come back to life and take over the universe