> Any one heard about the Mammoth they found in Russia. Completely preserved frozen Wolly Mammoth. Some Japanes scientist are going to try and clone it. While that is cool and all (I like the Jurassic Park movie and loved the book) I'm not sure what the point is. Besides producing a heard for a Mammoth Burger food chain or distributing them in zoos, I'm not sure how use full it would be. We could only learn so much about mammoth behavior from a clone, no group or learned behavior would be evident. I still think its cool though.
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My father-in-law mentioned something about this the other day. However, he stated that they would, in fact, attempt to remove semen from the woolly mammoth to breed it with an elephant (he was not specific as to Asian or African {like it matters}). However, the impossibility would be in that all of the bodily fluids would have crystallized, and a viable sample would not be obtainable.
Even if it could be possible to breed, or clone, I think the Jurassic quote from Jeff Goldbloom is very relevant. "They spent so much time figuring out if they could, they didn't stop and ask if they should."

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