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Orestes · 08-21-2002, 08:53 AM

Intereseting article at CNN, here's an excerpt:

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In an eerie recreation of Steven Spielberg's blockbuster movie "Jurassic Park", scientists are planning to clone an extinct animal to be the central attraction of a wildlife park.

The Times of London reports that Japanese scientists are planning to use tissue from the legs and testicles of a dead mammoth to clone the extinct creature and display it at an Ice Age wildlife park in Siberia.

Mammoths became extinct about 10,000 years ago, but using a technique that involves impregnating an Indian elephant -- its closest genetic relative -- with mammoth sperm and then repeating the procedure with its offspring could produce a creature that is 88 percent mammoth in 50 years, the report said.

The rest can be read <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/08/21/clone.mammoth/index.html" target="_blank">here</a>.

B. H. Manners · 08-21-2002, 11:18 PM

That is very interesting. Thank you for sharing that link with us.

08-22-2002, 05:41 PM

What an amazing age we live in!

lpetrich · 08-23-2002, 07:25 AM

Assembling a mammoth genome will be very difficult, because it is likely to be in lots of small pieces.

So the would-be mammoth cloners might cheat and construct a fur coat for a present-day elephant.

fando · 08-23-2002, 12:43 PM

What do they mean by 88% pure? Is that 88% genetically pure? That doesn't sound like a Mammoth to me, just some freaky, hybrid Elephant/Mammoth.

FoE · 08-23-2002, 05:12 PM

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Originally posted by fando:
<strong>What do they mean by 88% pure? Is that 88% genetically pure? That doesn't sound like a Mammoth to me, just some freaky, hybrid Elephant/Mammoth.</strong>

It still beats the Elephant/Mammoth hybrids we have today though.

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08-21-2002, 11:18 PM	#2
B. H. Manners Veteran Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Texas Posts: 1,213	That is very interesting. Thank you for sharing that link with us.

08-22-2002, 05:41 PM	#3
Synaesthesia Guest Posts: n/a	What an amazing age we live in!

08-23-2002, 07:25 AM	#4
lpetrich Contributor Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Lebanon, OR, USA Posts: 16,829	Assembling a mammoth genome will be very difficult, because it is likely to be in lots of small pieces. So the would-be mammoth cloners might cheat and construct a fur coat for a present-day elephant.

08-23-2002, 12:43 PM	#5
fando Veteran Member Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Los Angeles Area Posts: 1,372	What do they mean by 88% pure? Is that 88% genetically pure? That doesn't sound like a Mammoth to me, just some freaky, hybrid Elephant/Mammoth.

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