Real Jurrasic Park is coming!
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(CNN) -- 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.
An alternative technique would involve cloning the mammoth from DNA found in the soft tissue, but although methods of extraction have improved, complete strands of DNA from mammoths are still hard to come by.
This specimen, believed to have been buried in an avalanche 25,000 to 30,000 years ago, was found in 1994, but it wasn't until this month when an expedition was sent to the site following Japanese interest from universities in Kinki and Tifu.
Ten million buried in permafrost
Fictional cloned dinosaurs were placed in a park setting in the Jurassic Park movies
Those behind the planned park are already populating the site in north-east Siberia with other species from the Ice Age in hopeful anticipation of the mammoth's arrival.
There are currently hundreds of wild horses and musk ox grazing the land by the River Kolyma, and talks to import bison from Canada are already underway.
Mammoths, large herbivorous mammals that resemble modern elephants, first appeared on Earth four million years ago.
Scientists are unsure whether global climate change or hunting by early humans -- or a combination of both -- drove the mammoth to extinction.
There are believed to be ten million mammoths buried in the permafrost in Siberia, but because of the sparse population in the region only around one hundred specimens have been recovered.
However, despite the fact that most mammoths recovered from Siberia are seen as some of the finest museum examples in the world, poor excavation and preservation methods have ruined the chances for any reproduction of the animals by destroying tissue samples. -
I wished someone found frozen body of T -Rex
Bring Back T-Rex !
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Chey~!!Originally posted by Alfresco coffeeshop: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.
it's just an elephant nia..........
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But is it salready a big thing, If can brng back mammoth means can bring back T- Rex, Brontosaurus, Velociraptor.Originally posted by Mr Fugue:Chey~!!
it's just an elephant nia.......... -
can they bring back the ancient people who manufacture ancient dzi beads??Originally posted by Alfresco coffeeshop:But is it salready a big thing, If can brng back mammoth means can bring back T- Rex, Brontosaurus, Velociraptor. -
which animal they gonna impregnate for dinosaurs?
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The bugger will probably die of heatstroke in most places.
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Originally posted by Mr Fugue:can they bring back the ancient people who manufacture ancient dzi beads??
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Probably large reptiles like... I donno... maybe komodo dragons, or some specie of large crocodile?Originally posted by Suicine:which animal they gonna impregnate for dinosaurs?
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i can have a new pet!
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you already have smaplionheart liaoz...........Originally posted by FireIce:i can have a new pet!
mai greedy~!! -
Originally posted by Mr Fugue:you already have smaplionheart liaoz...........
mai greedy~!! ............ -
lizardOriginally posted by Suicine:which animal they gonna impregnate for dinosaurs?
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Eeww...
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fugue the dogOriginally posted by Suicine:which animal they gonna impregnate for dinosaurs?
lol but success not guarenteed , might end up up as a cross breed -
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Then the Impreza WRX will lose it's title of RexOriginally posted by Alfresco coffeeshop:I wished someone found frozen body of T -Rex
Bring Back T-Rex ! -
wtf..clones haven;t we had enough here in sgf..
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One day, Scientists are gonna gentically modify the T-Rex to be able to run faster, become tougher, think more cleverly and have its strength greatly enhanced!Originally posted by ceecookie:Then the Impreza WRX will lose it's title of Rex
This new species of T- Rex Shalled be called the "Rex STi " !!!!! -
jurassic park was nice - but what if it becomes a jurassic park 2 and the mammoth runs amok? hahaha!
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they can always used Godzilla or King kong to imprenate t-rexmah!Originally posted by Suicine:which animal they gonna impregnate for dinosaurs?
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a mammal giving birth to a reptile? LOL!
i would like to see the SABRETOOTH TIGER cloned....as well as those prehistoric horses, deer.....FARKING BIG MAN! Those giant birds as well... -
Wah CB, even the animals at the zoo have to deal with foreign talent now.
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Wah! Danger, Danger...Originally posted by markzz:One day, Scientists are gonna gentically modify the T-Rex to be able to run faster, become tougher, think more cleverly and have its strength greatly enhanced!
This new species of T- Rex Shalled be called the "Rex STi " !!!!! -
Haha!Originally posted by charlize:Wah CB, even the animals at the zoo have to deal with foreign talent now.