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Bringing Back Extinct Species?

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Regenerating a Mammoth for $10 Million

 

by Nicholas Wade

 

Scientists are talking for the first time about the old idea of resurrecting extinct species as if this staple of science fiction is a realistic possibility, saying that a living mammoth could perhaps be regenerated for as little as $10 million.

 

The same technology could be applied to any other extinct species from which one can obtain hair, horn, hooves, fur or feathers, and which went extinct within the last 60,000 years, the effective age limit for DNA...

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/science/...amp;ref=science

 

Cool.

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To think, I finished reading Jurassic Park last night,

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Michael Chriton dies, and scientists can't wait to start cloning dinosaurs!

 

"You bred Raptors?!?"

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If they're smart they read up on the dude in Jurassic Park that wanted to clone mini-dino's instead of true life ones. Too bad said guy ended up getting ripped apart by baby t-rexes in The Lost World.

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Honestly, I want to get an opinion from the director of "Carnosaur."

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I don't know. They've been talking about bringing back the mammoth for years now. You'd think if it was really possible, someone would have done it by now...especially since an elephant to a mammoth wouldn't seem to be that big of a jump.

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Bringing back huge species like that could be a disaster. It sounds like a sci-fi movie where a species comes back from extinction from human experiments and then starts killing a lot of people.

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The possible aftermath:

mammoth.jpg

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