The UK Telegraph reports:
The woolly mammoth, extinct for thousands of years, could be brought back to life in as little as four years thanks to a breakthrough in cloning technology.
And you wanna’ know what I’m thinking about this revolutionary new science? Hmmm. Wonder what it’ll taste like. Chicken probably. Big hairy chickens with tusks.
January 14, 2011 at 4:22 am
Hey this is great! then someone could set up a prehistoric nature preserve on a jungle island and clone other animals from the fossil record…
January 14, 2011 at 4:28 am
What could go wrong?
January 14, 2011 at 4:32 am
Dr. Ian Malcolm: "Don't you see the danger, John, inherent in what you're doing here? Genetic power is the most awesome force the planet's ever witnessed, yet you wield it like a kid that's found his dad's gun."
Jurassic Park
January 14, 2011 at 4:49 am
Hmm. Need to buy a bigger grill. Lots more charcoal too.
January 14, 2011 at 4:56 am
Ha.
January 14, 2011 at 5:54 am
This is a fantastic idea. Of course where will we send the mammoths once we have cloned them? Don't mammoths like tundra? And wouldn't we just be putting more stress on already fragile tundra ecosystems by adding ruminants that need massive calorie loads to survive?
What a waste of money.
January 14, 2011 at 1:58 pm
At least they're not using human embryos.
January 14, 2011 at 2:07 pm
Golly, I can't wait until the new Flintstone's Steakhouse opens up in Peoria! Will they have brontoburgers too?
January 14, 2011 at 2:56 pm
This is all to prepare us for the new ice age caused by lack of carbon consumption.
In 20 years, cows will be extinct, and we'll all be eating mammoth burgers……
January 14, 2011 at 3:33 pm
Didn't Al Jolson sing a song about mammoths?
"Mammmoooothhh! Maaammmmoth! The sun shines east, the sun shines west, but I know where the sun shines best…"
Well, maybe not.
January 14, 2011 at 4:18 pm
Mammoths lived in a time and era when their environment was conducive to their existence. The world has changed, that is, the ecosystem has. Therefore, will this be fair to the animal? Don't fool with Mother Nature.
January 14, 2011 at 4:31 pm
Well…any result would really be a sort of mammoth hybrid rather than straight clone, and who knows what the differences in gestation will be (look at lion/tiger vs tiger/lion crosses, to get an idea of how much of a difference it makes, even in things so close!) but I think it's pretty dang nifty!
…We don't have any frozen people, right? So they can't aim for that?
January 14, 2011 at 5:20 pm
Other than Ted Williams?
January 14, 2011 at 7:18 pm
Why isn't anybody asking the really important question??? 'What's a mammoth's carbon footprint???' It's GOTTA be bigger than cow-farts.
January 14, 2011 at 8:06 pm
We now have the answer to world hunger!
January 15, 2011 at 1:54 am
If they can clone mammoths I'll wait for the Brontosaurus so I can have those Fred Flintstone Bronto-Burgers that looked tasty!
As for mammoth, probably tastes like squirrel.
January 15, 2011 at 2:24 am
Ted Williams and Walt Disney
January 16, 2011 at 3:13 am
Will they taste like buffalo and be fat free?
January 18, 2011 at 8:41 pm
Oh this is too funny… Im thinking you can feed my big teenage brother for about two days, with one of those things! 😛