Can prehistoric mammoth's now be cloned?

[EpicMuyskens]

Now, just to clone it....

[MrStopinsanity]

Human Beings should NOT PLAYING GOD !

[XtremeWeed]

@MrStopinsanity There is no God simple as that.

[koffieislkkr]

It looks more like a baby elephant

[ThornoftheRose1993]

haven't people seen jurassic park O_O lol

[JohananRaatz]

Resurrecting Megalania: Can We Do It?

watch?v=uKbR1bcze8A

[bakufan988]

@JohananRaatz  Barack Obama: Yes We Can

[JohananRaatz]

@bakufan988 LOL I guess so!

[dltanner99]

The Dare Island Enigma is a cryptozoology novel about two boys who find something strange on an outer bank's beach see video book trailer

[PatelPwned]

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[quangluu96]

They should have clone albert einstein.

[thebuckrogers22]

this is fucking retarded. why would the japanese wanna close something as dangerous as a mammoth. did they not watch JURRASIC PARK????

[sprawlmessiah]

i hope it works so we can see Mammoths again lol!

[blaneman2200]

YEP, in six years we may have a mammoth clone

[joroma77]

There isn't such a thing as "pre-historic". The history of the earth is 6000 years old. And by the way, mammoths are alive today, in asia. Same skull, same build. But hairless and smaller.. And I'm not talking about elephants.

[franktastikart]

@joroma77 all your thinking comes from the bible. When are you gonna start thinking by yourself? given that there is so many Gods out there, that should tell you that none of them are real! including your God! if you were to think for your self you would see that! but you rather believe something someone years ago but in a book telling tells of unicorns, 4 legged bugs giants, dragons and magical beings. it would seem that you have a problem. you need some help.go get some from a psychiatrist.

[CarlosSpicyWeiner7]

@franktastikart There are many lies out there, that doesnt make the One Truth a lie too. All comes from the Father of Lies.

[franktastikart]

@CarlosSpicyWeiner7 holy shit! you sound like a fucking retard! Even the earliest full account of Jesus in the Bible, the Gospel of Mark, is admitted by the Catholic Church to date to at least A.D. 70, a full 40 years after Jesus' alleged death and resurrection. (Mark makes reference to an event that happened around A.D. 70, so it could not have been written any earlier. Modern scholars now date the Gospels as being written near A.D. 170, a full 140 years after. fact! look it up!

[CarlosSpicyWeiner7]

@franktastikart just because it wasnt written till a few years later doesnt mean its any less true. i dont care if i sound silly, god is still right

[franktastikart]

@CarlosSpicyWeiner7 Comparative Religion shows that the story of Jesus already existed in numerous religions prior to the alleged time of Jesus. Chrishna, Horus, Orpheus, Bacchus, Osiris, Dionysus, Buddha, Apollo, Hercules, Adonis, Ormuzd, Mithras, Indra, Œdipus, Quetzalcoatle, etc. The motif of a Crucified Savior was already extant prior to the alleged time of Jesus.

[franktastikart]

@CarlosSpicyWeiner7 Solar Mythology shows the story of Jesus is just an allegory for the sun passing through the Zodiac and the passage of the seasons of the year. Jesus travels throughout his one year ministry, and the description of his travels exactly match that of the sun traveling through the Zodiac during the year. Here we have the origin of the Jesus story. This common origin explains why all the stories of crucified saviors are essentially the same.

[franktastikart]

@CarlosSpicyWeiner7 Jesus allegedly had crowds of thousands follow him around. Once he fed 5000 people with only a few loaves of bread and a couple of fish (Mark 6:39-44). Later he repeated the miracle again feeding a crowd of 4000 people (Mark 8:1-9). Jesus cured sick people miraculously and raised people from the dead. He changed water into wine at a wedding reception. He exorcised demons..yet.....

[ColdSideOfPillow136]

@franktastikart Hahaha each person got a scale and a crumb!

[franktastikart]

@CarlosSpicyWeiner7 no one wrote any of this down when it allegedly happened? t's inconceivable that no one at the time bothered to write down anything about the most important person in the whole of human history. Writing was common back then. People wrote letters. Historians wrote commentaries on current events. The Romans wrote and kept legal documents about trials. It's considered one of the best documented periods of history. Yet no one wrote anything about this Jesus

[CarlosSpicyWeiner7]

@franktastikart im no historian, so go talk with a biblical historian if you want the real answers. jesus was hated by lots of people back in his day, he still is today apparently. most of his followers were normal uneducated people. he came to save those who knew they were lost and not self righteous. the leaders of the day probably wanted to forget about him and erase his record in history. his followers proved otherwise.

[franktastikart]

@CarlosSpicyWeiner7 Jesus never existed fact! There is no convincing evidence that any of the surviving gospels were written by eyewitnesses.Indeed, study of the gospels shows quite conclusively that they were not. you talk of truth, facts are the truth! just because the fact do not fit what you think is the truth does not make the fact wrong. just that what you thought was the truth is not! truth without facts is not truth, truth with facts is truth! believe in facts and you will know truth!

[CarlosSpicyWeiner7]

@franktastikart ah ok. i see you cant be convinced. someday you will die and have to face him. get back to me then. cant say i didnt warn you

[franktastikart]

@CarlosSpicyWeiner7 sorry but the fact do not support your belief! ask a scientist about the big bang, you will get a HUGE explanation that has been well thought out and tested over and over again before coming to fact, ask a creationist about God, and they can't tell you who, what, where, where, or why God exists, if you can't answer any of those questions without evidence! if you cant prov anything you say with any kind of evidence (which scientist have) then you must be wrong!

[franktastikart]

@CarlosSpicyWeiner7 your most likely to say that i am just like the devil. trying to get you to eat from the tree of knowledge and wisdom. no your not going to do that, your stronger then that. bemuses you know that eating from the tree would mean abandoning your god and you would go to hell. and you don't want that now do you. so you say no to knowledge and wisdom and walk away thinking that i am madman. that i am foolish and dumb for eating from the tree and gaining knowledge and wisdom.

[ericiscoolify]

Tho it is exciting i dont think we should bring back the mammoth. The human race will couse its own fate and we r the most distructive organism on this planet... so terraform mars and call it a day we will put them there >:(

[veggiebiker]

Why 'prehistoric' mammoths, what other sort is there- common or garden mammoth.......

[ElephantAndSpyroFan]

I remember reading an elephant book once saying that scientists tried to put baby mammoth genes in a female elephants ovaries to see if the elephant would give birth to a baby mammoth, but she didn't. It was just a normal baby.

[Mikeandwendy74]

if they cloned this mammoth, it would look  like Rosie O'Donnell

[Tanyacleary1]

how are scientist going to bring a prehistoric animal ( mammoth ) back to life its been extinct for 1 . 6 million years ago.

[franktastikart]

mammoths disappeared from most of its range at the end of the Pleistocene 10,000 years ago!

[Dinospikester]

Actually not all mammoths died. A smal relict population of them were still alive on Wrangel Island and survived there until 1700 BC.

[franktastikart]

I know that! that is why i said (most of its range )!

[franktastikart]

A small population survived on St. Paul Island, Alaska, up until 3,750 BCE,and the small mammoths of Wrangel Island survived until 1,650 BCE to be more precise!

[joroma77]

@franktastikart Oh, 1,650 BC? Okay. I didn't know but thanks I'll do some research about it!

[Agogaraxis]

yesss they were alive recently in that case. i remember they said they found some meat that was sent to new york to be made into burgers and steak and it was very expensive to eat it i once read.

[dean84921]

@Dinospikester i just looked that up, fascinating.

[joroma77]

@franktastikart You've read your textbook well! And memorized such big numbers! And that scientific word sounds delicious. When are you gonna start thinking by yourself?

[VoodooZmija]

genetics my friend.

[itsmejas0n]

@Tanyacleary1 they can clone it by getting a good DNA sample and inject it to a elephant egg then zap it so it can devide then be a mammoth

[joshdrew2828]

"elephants dont lay eggs"

[NicoleNikki056]

@joshdrew2828 of course they don't it's just that inside an elephant the young is waiting to be spermed in a chamber they call an elephant's egg humans have that too.

[axe11154]

the first test is to fuse the dna with a bird by putting it in a eggs this will show if any uther test are needed to clone it also once its cloned we wont see the same mammoths from a long time ago sence its dead serton dna parts are missing so thell use dna parts from relatives to fill in whats missing making a hybrid not a real mammoth

[GreyGooseVodka555]

@Tanyacleary1 same way how they created that clone sheep i think it was name dolly??if not idk wat they named it

it could be possible to clone a mammoth

that would be truly amazing and talented to pull it off though

[joroma77]

@Tanyacleary1 1,6 million years ago? You're dreaming. Unless you were there and saw it!

[ThatGuy878]

dude yur an idiot

[Ninja5aif]

but are the emboyic cells dead? or can they re-construct the genetic molecouls of the embroys for the cloning stage? its quite fasinating

[ThatGuy878]

haha u spelled molecules wrong

[xXxfearINyouxXx]

i saw like 3 hour thing on the mamouth found

[Silvia1826]

Why clone a mammoth? Because for us nerds who absolutely love dinsosaurs, would love to see it happen. :) However, if it is possible, scientists would need to find a way to feed it, since prehistoric plants are not the same as our current plants. It'd be heartbreaking to see the mammoth clone die after creating it. But what about diseases as well? Would it be effected by germs, or could it give us germs? Still highly interesting. :)

[A2Kaid]

Scientist are contemplating cross-breeding this baby Mammoth with it's close relative the Asian Elephant. Whether the offspring will be able to re-produce or not will depend on the chromosome amount of each species, and other factors.

You asked about diseases...Well because this thing will be a cross-breed it is feasible It's Asian Elephant genes may help the offspring build an immune system to resist modern diseases...It would most likely be kept in a safe environment...

[kindoraf]

you sound like a moron saying that animals eat their babies. of course they do. they don't have all the modern health sciences we do to recover. they eat their baby or babies when they think they are sick and will make sick of the other babies; so they won't die. duhh

[Snakeeyes0101]

This is just stupid to try to create life. Why would you want to create a wooley mammoth?

[wasuppal]

beacause you dip they wana find out about prehistoric life dip

[existenceisrelative]

You*dip* seem to have*dip* a strange*dip* tic when you*dip* type. Did you*dip* know that?*dip*

[Snakeeyes0101]

You calling me a Dip? Man, live in the present. And what are you going to do when it dies? Make another one? Fuck that shit, the mammoths are long and gone buddy.

[deadbee1]

Not heard anything like that before... did you think of that yourself? very clever.... are you gonna say "it's just playing god" next.... that'd show em.

Why don't you actually think about why they want to bring the mammoth back instead of instantly spouting shit that's been said a billion times??

[shadowperson12]

Well for one it gives us an insight on how animals lived back than. Who knows what answers a cloned woolly mammoth could provide us with.

[Darkwizzrobe]

well if you cross breed it you're going to probably have a limited insight of its species and not to mention it would stay in a lab/zoo which may interfere with studying its nature habitat and with out a parent besides the Asian elephant it may not be nurture the way it would with a mammoth.

[trakkaton]

Ever heard of the SS-22? No?

Saved you from the worldwide catastrophe of the fall-out of an USan attack on Iran.

[noneofthis4322]

Surprised no well preserved mammoths have been found on wrangel Island. They survived up into the 17th century there.

[MachTo5]

Cloning is terrible for one thing something will definitely go wrong and two if you ever see the cloned animal and say hey thats a raptor and ur moms like no honey thats a cloned raptor AH WTF!

[wotsup1000]

they had there chance and fucked it up just like we will one day. (but so bring bk the dodo bird its a dope lol thats if i could bring bk any animale)

[tonino39]

it will be cool if all prehistoric animals attack new york city

[no2475]

godzilla already did...

[SilverApe1428]

All scientists need to do to create a real Godzilla is understand dna moe and stuff, clone a trex, and let it get radiated in a large body of water. It might look different than the godzilla from the movies, but it would be godzilla nonetheless,lol. The world would be in trouble.lol

[SilverApe1428]

Next thing u know well be cloning sabertooths and all types of animals. Our way of war would problobly degenerate hence riding a mammoth into battle with a spear or a sabertooth with a sword would make war a hell of a lot more fun than it currently is. Back to the collusiums. THIS IS SPARTA!!!! lol

[rettinhousegames]

why create them if scientests cant even save the few elephants the world has left?

[bonesaw08]

cause mammoths are cooler than elephants

[allahjihad11]

cause mammoths could live in siberia and north america and that would be pretty cool

[trakkaton]

Scientists have nothing to do with the extinction of species, it's caused by the corporate elite and the banksters who rule the political class and have a different, totally unhippie agenda.

[SilverApe1428]

Heres the thing thats messed up with scientists and such. They dont care too muc about those creatures that are still currently living. They want extinct creatures because there "special".

[janet928]

what would happen if we cloned these things and they got loose in the city streets. Sheer Panic. I vote to only bring back pygmy mammoths....kids could ride them and they would do little damage if they got away.

[InsaneKhorn]

you want elephants as pets? holy shit greenpeace should kill you

animals are not made for us to ride them

[OnyxLeo]

They shouldn't be made period. T_T

And by "shouldn't be made period" I mean made in a lab, not like they shouldn't exist. XD

[trakkaton]

I guess it's hard for a donkey when 2 people sit on top, but a mammoth should be OK with 150 pounds on the back.

[MichelleJWinLAiSeek]

it wouldnt be bad if mammoths were cloned you and i should fear if Trexs and raptors were cloned and got loose..then serious time to fear

[wolvesXD]

lol i DO NOT want raptors roaming around thw world, just imagine finding one in your shower rofl

[trakkaton]

Whooo, I would face a Trex any time.

My guess:

Bad senses, not interested in small chunks, too big to move fast, easy to spot, can't swim, wrecked easily by an RPG or grenade launcher.

Nothing a flame thrower, some tunnel systems, big traps or a helicopter can't solve...

Then: Food for years...

[jedihunter176]

Mmmm...T-Rex drumsticks...

[amets88]

what's the point of bringing back prehistoric mammals while we continue to exterminate contemporary creatures such as gorillas, tigers, rhinos and so on... yes, while we we slaughter whales in the name of scientific study, and turn them into pet food - the same whales that swam when the mammoths walked ! perhaps we will clone mammoths to make macdonald mammoth burgers !

[orgasmtron]

lol

[canis4399]

Mmmm.... mammoth burgers

[IZuWIZme]

@amets88 they are probly dumb enough to bring back mamoths shove them in farms and breed them , once they are fully grown they fucken chop them up :/

[PivotXL1]

@amets88 Stop being ignorant. An individual of any species means nothing, only the species as a whole. Tigers and Gorillas could become prosperous once more with this technology. If this is a success we can clone endangered species to stability again. And besides seeing a mammoth in the zoo would be very fascinating.

[Octagonapus97]

@amets88 Mmm...I bet that would taste gooood...

[UnforgivenxKarma]

Cloning animals, what next scientists test on humans and an outbreak occurs then it turns into I AM LEGEND. Just kidding, that's pretty cool I guess.

[SilverApe1428]

The govt has already cloned hundreds if not thousands of humans, they just dont tell you.

[themanabel]

it the end of the world!!!!!!!!!!!!!

u know how frist ask your self who the richest contry in the world (japan) for 1

then ask ur self who has the most best of the best soldiers (mersnerys srry cant spell)any 1 can get them then there going to started clone them and there going to have a clone army like star wars and the started to take ver the world!!!!

[stan469]

I think it would be amazing if scientists end up cloning a mammoth. Bringing a species back from extinction (even if there is only one) would be such an accomplishment.

[agoodnameisntit]

That has happened already, but not by that far, a random peruvian animal that was like a deer or something died out, and the scientists took blood samples of the last deer thing, they cloned it, brought the species back to life, then it died because of a lung deformation, wich is what usually happens with cloned animals

[trakkaton]

The problem with cloning is that somatic cells have already too much superinformation on the DNA, like telomer shortening, regulatory markers, deactivation, point mutations and so on. The genetic code is there, but just cloning (=proliferation from a somatic cell) won't help. We'd need to really understand the proteome to actually reengineer the fitting genome.

[ldreyes]

No one can take a fucking joke can they!?!?!

[21StCenturyWarfare]

there is nothing that Russian cant with help of God

[ldreyes]

they can do this but i pray to God they dont,havent they seen jurassic park!?!

[KhalifaHomer]

Errr, it's a movie.

[ldreyes]

no fucking way i thought it was based on a true story dumbass

[takizawa89]

RT is a news thing, not a movie

[KhalifaHomer]

I was talking about Jurassic Park being a movie

[KingCosmo7]

oh ya of course, cuz the mammoths are going to bust out of their pens and eat everyone alive. they WOULD be dangerous, but so are elephants and we still keep them in captivity

[ceitiosaurus]

will it really is possible to clone dinosaurs from/by using miniscule fragments of their genetic codes and implaceing them in bird dna so a bird like an ostrich or an emu can lay dinosaur eggs

[ComradeLynx]

americans cant do THIS! And a lot of other things

[yaroukh]

take you pill and go back to your bed

[maddhott000]

lol

[BALLYHEIGUEBOY]

ya do it think of the next years fasion show in paris...yes here we hav kate moss wearing mammoth this years must hav!!!!

[raguv2000]

yes, do it

I want to see some T-Rex as well

[LawnikZZZ]

"Russia the native land of elephants"

[DividedInside]

Long long time ago, sure. The environment suits mammoths perfectly.

[KingCosmo7]

i dont think NYC is the best invironment for African animals, but we still see them there

[richiefrost]

I can only fear the thought of the natural virus's of that clone if it would be created. then to introduced this clone into the world. it is dangerous to clone something that is extinct. as the unknown virus's can mutate into something that anything alive today does not have any immunity to, from that time an age. if the scientist's are so smart. but not think of the lives that will be put in danger. only for the fame an fortune an this would be sold like anything else. zoo's will buy it in end

[1888junkteam]

thats amazing

[Wiitrack]

possibly or borrow them

[Wiitrack]

possibly or borrow them

[turdlinger5000]

creepin it real

[XboxNurdsUnite]

why would any one clone them if they might kill us?

[Wiitrack]

shoot em wit an RPG

[XboxNurdsUnite]

can everyone in russia afford an RPG?

[jbear3333]

kill us?

should that stop us from cloning rare tigers forced into extinction?

and i don't know about you but i won't be killed by a wolly mammoth, at any point in my life

[XboxNurdsUnite]

well ,jbear3333, do you believe in a God and have faith with him/her? if you don't then well, i respect your comment. but if you do, doesnt your God say animals shouldnt be cloned ?

[jbear3333]

man has been cloning and using genetics since the dawn of agriculture. my god would never give such laws that imply a, stupid and inconsistent creator.

clearly, emotion > logic, for you

[KingCosmo7]

well what if thomas edison said that "we already have oil lanterns, why should i try to make eletric light bulbs" also, plants and animals are both organisms Xp

[stylez59]

animals dont kill for pleasure unlike some humans...

[SilverApe1428]

Ud be surprised how just as messed up animals are like we are. Did you know some animals eat there babies? Its true. I would rather murder a man than eat a baby. Thats just sick.

[Babekyle]

@SilverApe1428 china eats their baby id rather be an animal and don't know anything than to know that is my baby i was eating.

[SilverApe1428]

@Babekyle Proof? Also wanting to be in ignorant bliss rather than knowledge and intelligence is called being weak minded. Not trying to offend, just tellin it how it is. Also if this is about eating placentas those are not babies.

[Ompaloompa99]

lol yes the mammoths will wipe the human race of the earth justas we did to them XD

seriously we can handle more dangerous animals than a wolly mammoth, right?

[anticlockwissee]

we didn't wipe mammoths out....

[Ompaloompa99]

well we played a part right?

[XboxNurdsUnite]

i didnt men it like that, dumbass

[SilverApe1428]

Thats what we have lots of tranquilizers for.

[stupidcupid16]

haha joeyvader your funny :P

[Youngearthguy]

Why clone them? They were still reported sightings of them as recently as the 1960's. Someone supposedly killed one in 1899 in Alaska. Russian fur trappers claimed they were still living in the tundra in the 1920's. WWII pilots claimed to have spotted them from their planes in Alaska.

[jbear3333]

well all i can say there, is that if they still have some random minute population, that makes them deserve conservation and propagation at the least. besides, you speak of legends and tales, not modern day results... we have to go with what we know

[Jewishfan]

I'm not an expert in clone, but to clone a mammoth is doesn't sound as good idea to me.

[MachiavelliReturns]

WOW! It must be brought back!

[WyattKaldenberg]

You could not clone it in America. The Christians would not allow it.

[xenzuva]

Cloning happens in the USA all the time- since over 50 years ago.

[joeyvader]

Very interesting...I wonder if the hunters wife minds being named after a member of the elephant family?

[agoodnameisntit]

"honey I'm back from my hunting trip i found a mammoth today, it reminded me of you... you know big, hairy, old"

[LlodraJo]

it's amazing!

[capslock86]

that is amazing! now all who doubted evolution can shove it!