This makes the production of mammoth clones far more likely. We have
preserved blood, although no comment yet on actual viability, but
flesh also preserved extremely well. If it is possible to extract
DNA, we could hardly ask for a better sample.
So a baby mammoth in our future went to a well maybe to very
plausible. I thin we are looking at mama. It also tells us that
when we get this happening, that we will also generate a decent
number of unique individuals which will ensure a robust core
population.
This will fuel the building excitement in this pending species
resurrection which is still been largely ignored.
Once we master the mammoth, it will be possible to swiftly resurrect
the whole Pleistocene biome itself. The Mammoth has been in our
face, but considering how everything actually died, we can explore
promising waterholes in particular to find additional species.
Published May 29, 2013
The frozen body of a
10,000 to 15,000 year old mammoth found on a remote island in the
Arctic Ocean has yielded a stunning find: blood so well preserved
that it flowed freely from the ancient mammal, according to Russian
scientists.
Scientists with the
Research Institute of Applied Ecology of the North, North-Eastern
Federal University, and the Russian Geographical Society announced on
Wednesday the amazing news, following the study of the carcass of a
female mammoth in good preservation on Lyakhovsky Islands of
Novosibirsk archipelago.
'The blood is very
dark, it was found in ice cavities below the belly and when we broke
these cavities with a poll pick, the blood came running out.'
- Semyon Grigoriev,
the head of the expedition and chairman of the Mammoth Museum.
“The blood is very
dark, it was found in ice cavities below the belly and when we broke
these cavities with a poll pick, the blood came running out,” said
Semyon Grigoriev, the head of the expedition and chairman of the
Mammoth Museum.
“Interestingly, the
temperature at the time of excavation was -7 to – 10 degrees
Celsius [19.4 to 14 degrees Fahrenheit]. It may be assumed that the
blood of mammoths had some cryoprotective properties.”
The muscle tissue of
the frozen carcass was also stunning -- the color of fresh meat,
Grigoriev said, totally unlike meat that is centuries old.
“The fragments of
muscle tissues, which we’ve found out of the body, have a natural
red color of fresh meat. The reason for such preservation is that the
lower part of the body was underlying in pure ice, and the upper part
was found in the middle of tundra.”
Wooly mammoths are
thought to have died out around 10,000 years ago, although scientists
think small groups of them lived longer in Alaska and on Russia's
Wrangel Island off the Siberian coast.
Scientists already
have deciphered much of the genetic code of the woolly mammoth from
balls of mammoth hair found frozen in the Siberian permafrost. Some
believe it's possible to recreate the prehistoric animal if they find
living cells in the permafrost.
Those who succeed in
recreating an extinct animal could claim a "Jurassic Park
prize," the concept of which is being developed by the X Prize
Foundation that awarded a 2004 prize for the first private
spacecraft.
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