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Woolly Mammoth to Be Cloned

Within five years, a woolly mammoth will likely be cloned, according to scientists who have just recovered well-preserved bone marrow in a mammoth thigh bone. Japan's Kyodo News first reported the find. You can see photos of the thigh bone at this Kyodo page.

Russian scientist Semyon Grigoriev, acting director of the Sakha Republic's mammoth museum, and colleagues are now analyzing the marrow, which they extracted from the mammoth's femur, found in Siberian permafrost soil.

Grigoriev and his team, along with colleagues from Japan's Kinki University, have announced that they will launch a joint research project next year aimed at re-creating the enormous mammal, which went extinct around 10,000 years ago.

Mammoths used to be a common sight on the landscape of North America and Eurasia. One of my favorite papers of recent months concerned the earliest-known depiction of an animal from the Americas. It was a mammoth engraved on a mammoth bone. Many of our distant ancestors probably had regular face-to-face encounters with the elephant-like giants.


The key to cloning the woolly mammoth is to replace the nuclei of egg cells from an elephant with those extracted from the mammoth's bone marrow cells. Doing this, according to the researchers, can result in embryos with mammoth DNA. That's actually been known for a while.

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What's been missing is woolly mammoth nuclei with undamaged genes. Scientists have been on a Holy Grail-type search for such pristine nuclei since the late 1990s. Now it sounds like the missing genes may have been found.

In an odd twist, global warming may be responsible for the breakthrough.

Warmer temperatures tied to global warming have thawed ground in eastern Russia that is almost always permanently frozen. As a result, researchers have found a fair number of well-preserved frozen mammoths there, including the one that yielded the bone marrow.


Is it such a good idea, however, to clone animals that have long been extinct? For a while there's been some discussion of a real-life Jurassic Park setup containing such animals. Introducing these beasts into existing ecosystems could be like bringing in a potentially invasive species that would try to fill some space presently held by other animal(s). Even if the cloned animals were contained in special parks, there could still be a risk of spreading.

So if the woolly mammoth is successfully cloned sooner rather than later, we'd probably be left with more questions and controversy than answers, at least in the short term.
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It seems rather unlikely that they would find an intact set of chromosomes from something that has been dead tens of thousands of years.

If they got enough material, though, they should be able to sequence the genome, and use modern elephant eggs to produce at least some sort of hybrid.

It would be an amazing thing to see such a beast resurrected!
 
Ol' Smokey said:
It seems rather unlikely that they would find an intact set of chromosomes from something that has been dead tens of thousands of years.

If they got enough material, though, they should be able to sequence the genome, and use modern elephant eggs to produce at least some sort of hybrid.

It would be an amazing thing to see such a beast resurrected!
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thay did in a big chunk of ice there was a baby one that thay still where able to get DNA from or something like that i see it on the TV i think it was daily planet
 
The most brilliant geneticists and scientists in the world clone an animal that has been extinct for thousands of years, and for the sole purpose to be hunted for sport.
 
Ol' Smokey said:
It seems rather unlikely that they would find an intact set of chromosomes from something that has been dead tens of thousands of years.

If they got enough material, though, they should be able to sequence the genome, and use modern elephant eggs to produce at least some sort of hybrid.

It would be an amazing thing to see such a beast resurrected!
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Researchers have had the DNA for awhile. Last year they were able to fertilize multiple eggs successfully. The issue has been getting the egg to implant in the surrogate womb.
 
xeon said:
The most brilliant geneticists and scientists in the world clone an animal that has been extinct for thousands of years, and for the sole purpose to be hunted for sport.
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Well, I take the comments as humour.

Soemtimes I do wonder though, about people who react to just about any critter with "Kewl, how do I kill it?".:bangHead:
 
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