Should We Clone A Woolly Mammoth?

[RATTER15]

It appears that we will soon be in the position to clone a woolly mammoth, should we do it and will we do it? Who will do it?

[Sqad]

PP...thanks. I was waiting for someone to answer.

[RATTER15]

Interesting, personally I would love to see one cloned but that is for selfish reasons I admit! If a large enough park area could be created so that a breeding pair could be placed in safety I wouldn't be opposed to it. There is a programme all about it on Sunday night at 8pm, not sure which channel, I will be at work anyway :-(

[Peter Pedant]

Briggs and King 1952

Robert Briggs (December 10, 1911 — March 4, 1983) was a scientist who in 1952, together with Thomas Joseph King, cloned a frog by nuclear transfer of embryonic cells. The same technique, using somatic cells, was later used to create Dolly the Sheep. Their experiment was the first successful nuclear transplantation performed in metazoans. wiki

[Mamyalynne]

Sunday 8PM Channel 4.

[RandyMarsh]

Wow, of course we should do this.

[Sqad]

PP...right...I get it now.

BUT.......5,000 year old nuclear material?....Good luck.

[B00]

Does seem a possibility sqad, on the carcass they found there was fresh blood inside it (they called the carcass Buttercup...!) and meat that was still relatively fresh.

[Sqad]

BOO...LOL.....O.K.

[Old_Geezer]

I'd be in favour once they have enough DNA to create a herd, both genders. Preferably with some DNA variety. Why be keen to ensure elephants don't go extinct and then baulk at the thought or bringing mammoths back ? I'm not sure that is particularly consistent given that the only real different is one has gone over the extinction status line whilst the other is not quite there yet.

[RATTER15]

I agree OG!

[carrust]

You've only got to go into your local Lidl to find they've already been cloned. They are usually round the pies and cakes:-)

[Peter Pedant]

They are trying to do the same with the cuddly quagga
[ kinda zebra ]

http://www.quaggaproject.org/the-quagga-project.htm

called q as a result of the sounds of its neigh ( nay - really ?)
Those naughty Boere called everything that crawled, a quagga so they didnt notice when they went extinct and then argued for a hundred years about whether it was an infertile horse-zebra cross. ( it isnt )