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Frozen Baby Mammoth Going To Japan
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Researchers at Japan Jikei University will soon be receiving a body of a frozen baby mammoth which is said to be one of the best preserved specimens of mammoth ever to be discovered. The researchers at the Jikei University School Medicine will use advanced computer tomography scanners to obtain three dimensional images of its internal organs. Question: When are we getting a clone copy of the gigantic woolly mammoth? Source: Pink Tentacle |
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July 18th, 2007 at 8:34 pm
I have seen various photos and news clip (videos) of Baby mammoth in past few days but in all such footage it is EXREMELY painfull to see the state of preservation we are providing to this so called “best preserved specimens of mammoth ever to be discovered”.
What a waste of opportunity - when it will be realized, will be too late!!!
I mean, when it was naturally preserved under the ice all this while then why we are exposing it?
January 10th, 2009 at 5:07 am
I completely agree with Anil. I am currently thirteen yars old and find this quite unpractical to, let’s just say “unpreserve” what used to be the best preserved of all wooly mammoths. This is ruining the chances of getting proper cells and other things needed to clone this prehistoric creature. I am not sure if it is being held in a temperature controlled room, but if not scientists better act fast.
June 18th, 2009 at 7:47 am
damn yall sound smart. i just think its cool
October 6th, 2009 at 11:49 pm
Meredith, how can you be unsure whether it’s being held in a temperature-controlled room? Either you know or you don’t. Why do people say they’re “not sure” when they actually have no freaking idea? It’s ridiculous.
But yes, it is quite surprising that such a rare find is being so crudely packaged and shipped. Maybe it was not practical to get the proper equipment and expertise to where the body was found. And maybe that’s because not enough people care about it to justify the expense. Just my guess.
October 20th, 2009 at 9:09 pm
The room in this picture is cooled to the correct temp according to science spot. But either way it just had to be taken from the ice and as for cloneing it im not sure about the whole cloning thing, yes it would be cool to see a mammoth but is it corect to do so? more recently the dodo could have been cloned but nobody was that bothered about a bird that couldnt fly, so why the fuss over a hairy elephant. just kidding!
just my opinion
October 20th, 2009 at 9:42 pm
In May of 2007, the carcass of a six-month-old female woolly mammoth calf was discovered encased in a layer of permafrost near the Yuribei River in Russia where it had been buried for 37,000 years. Alexei Tikhonov, the Russian Academy of Science’s Zoological Institute’s deputy director, has dismissed the prospect of cloning the animal, as the whole cells required for cloning would have burst under the freezing conditions. DNA is expected to be well-preserved enough to be useful for research on mammoth phylogeny and perhaps physiology however.