Japan, Russia see chance to clone mammoth

You say why, I think a good reason is so the species isn't lost forever, I would have thought we had a duty to preserve any and every extinct species that we can.

I am waiting also for dinosaurs, barbecued tyranosaurus rex

but why?...There was a reason why tha mammoths went extinct

Mammoth steak would most definitely fetch a high price in some circles.

but why? Just to say, yep, we can?
There was a reason why tha mammoths went extinct, let them rest in peace.

Mammoth steak would most definitely fetch a high price in some circles.

There have been stories that it is periodically available...
http://www.foodba...eat.html

-A collector friend of mine had one of those tusks sitting on his coffee table.

Also, it would be awesome if they could also do this with other animals (i.e. Neanderthals

YOU animal!

If they want to get more bang for their buck they may have to clone 5 or 10 of them to get a breeding population with sufficient genetic diversity. I wonder if they are more or less susceptible to modern day bacteria than elephants.

Also, it would be awesome if they could also do this with other animals (i.e. Neanderthals

YOU animal!

If they want to get more bang for their buck they may have to clone 5 or 10 of them to get a breeding population with sufficient genetic diversity. I wonder if they are more or less susceptible to modern day bacteria than elephants.

How can there be any genetic diversity if all of them are clones of the same animal? Wouldn't all of the other clones have the exact DNA, hence the term clone?

First, and most importantly, we DO NOT know whether we can - nobody ever has cloned an extinct organism, not to mention from genetic material of thousands of years.

Damn someone beat me to the anecdote of being able to eat mammoth meat, a la certain gary larson comics heheh.

We could even resurrect the mammoth hunt as a human pastime activity.

First, and most importantly, we DO NOT know whether we can - nobody ever has cloned an extinct organism, not to mention from genetic material of thousands of years.

Actually the Pyrenean Ibex was brought back for all of 7 minutes.

You say why, I think a good reason is so the species isn't lost forever, I would have thought we had a duty to preserve any and every extinct species that we can.

just seems sad to me. one cloned wooly mammoth. huge, hairy, with big black eyes. all alone in a very strange world. let it rest in peace.

Extinction is as natural as death, would you work to oppose death as well?

Extinction is as natural as death, would you work to oppose death as well?

Why would one not? I'm assuming you think it is futile. Do you have a different reason?

Also Humans are an emergent property of the universe so anything we do is also "natural". Resurrecting extinct species would be a natural act, as ALL acts are.
Natural/unnatural is the most lazy, meaningless false dichotomy imaginable.

Death is a prerequisite of life... death drives evolution. complex multicellular life would not exist without it.

Damn someone beat me to the anecdote of being able to eat mammoth meat, a la certain gary larson comics heheh.

We could even resurrect the mammoth hunt as a human pastime activity.

Yeah, compound cam bows with magnesium risers, Kevlar strings, and tritium sights along with carbon fiber arrows and collapsing stainless steel arrowheads. Just like the old days. Or we could set brush fires with flare guns from helicopters and drive them over cliffs I suppose. Flash bang grenades?

That's a little extreme, isn't it?

That's a little extreme, isn't it?

I took it as him trying to show off about his knowledge of weapons or something... it was an odd comment in any case.

Considering that we've only recently learned so much about the highly organized social lives of elephants, their sub-audible communications, their obvious sentience, etc., it would seem to be cruel to create just one of a species. If you raise them with elephants they would probably learn to behave like elephants but what would that teach you about mammoths?
If you clone a whole herd, assumably from different corpses, how would they know how to act together?

At best you will have an animatronic version of a mammoth.

If you actually know anything at an introductory level about those weapons, then you would realize that he's trying to make it sound extreme on purpose - not to demonstrate knowledge...It's a mix of mostly common high end elements, and a few made up components.

That's a little extreme, isn't it?

I took it as him trying to show off about his knowledge of weapons or something... it was an odd comment in any case.

I took the comment about the compound bows, etc, as a sort of tongue in cheek reference as to how 'hunting for mammoths like our ancestors' wouldn't really resemble the way that our ancestors did it.

That's a little extreme, isn't it?

I took it as him trying to show off about his knowledge of weapons or something... it was an odd comment in any case.

I took the comment about the compound bows, etc, as a sort of tongue in cheek reference as to how 'hunting for mammoths like our ancestors' wouldn't really resemble the way that our ancestors did it.

If you actually know anything at an introductory level about those weapons, then you would realize that he's trying to make it sound extreme on purpose - not to demonstrate knowledge...It's a mix of mostly common high end elements, and a few made up components.

Why don't we hear of cloning animals that are endangered?

Still not working too well.