27 Replies to “Leave Well Enough Alone”

  2. Nobody knows what made them extinct. Maybe disease.
    Revnant Dream at March 15, 2012 6:35 PM
    Sure. Tuberculosis carried to these shores by Europeans.

  5. The best thing about mammoth steaks is that you can pick your teeth with the tusks when you’re done.

  6. I read a paper that stated they froze to death. They are covered with hair, not fur and are tropical as modern elephants. From those found in Russia they have found signs of asphyxia, crushing and unchewed food in their mouths and undigested stomach contents.
    They estimate the temperature required to do that would be about -175F.
    Sorry deleted the bookmark.

  7. But but but; the Woolly Mammoth has already been re-created and re-named Michael Moore.

  10. I’m kinda looking forwards to hunting one of them with a eeeeeeeevil black rifle… unregistered of course..

  11. Barbeque Mammoth brisket, Texas style of course. That otter taste right fine. Of course a rack of mammoth ribs (and a keg) would make for one hell of a tailgate party entree!

  12. I always thought that would be the ultimate karma: Algore and assorted GW nutballs, trampled by a wooly mammoth.
    And now it may come to fruition.

  13. can you imagine if they suceed the benefits it would create, drive from Torana to LA on one mammoth fart

  15. If one died, and you were obliged to bury it, would it be a mammoth undertaking?

  16. And saber tooth tigers? Where’s my saber tooth tiger?
    I have it on good authority they make great pets. Yabadabadoo.

  17. Speedy
    “They are covered with hair, not fur and are tropical as modern elephants. From those found in Russia they have found signs of asphyxia, crushing and unchewed food in their mouths and undigested stomach contents.
    They estimate the temperature required to do that would be about -175F.
    Sorry deleted the bookmark.”
    Me too.
    It had been speculated that they were flash frozen by super-cooled volcanic gases….however it has since been also reported the remains show signs of decomp prior to freezing. Which is reasonable if prior warming periods have been warmer….possibly decomp from a partial thaw. This apparent decomp may doom recovery of viable DNA.
    BTW…the Mammoth’s fur was similar to that of a musk ox(excellant fine wool) and frequently exceeded 3 ft in length….also Mammoth blood had properties which gave it a unique resistance to frost-bite.

  18. Of course a rack of mammoth ribs (and a keg) would make for one hell of a tailgate party entree!

    Yes, except a documentary TV series I remember as a child claimed that they were so big that they’d turn your car over on its side.
    And bravo, Gord in Kneehill.
    And I wonder if the mammoth genes carry any diseases that will wipe out modern elephants?

  19. Man, real live woolly mammoths. If it works its going to be SO cool!
    Maybe next they can do those wolves that were as big as a freakin’ horse. Real live dire wolves big enough to ride!
    Best of all, I’ll have an excuse to buy a .600 double rifle. To go hunt mammoths on wolf-back. YEEEEhaw!

  20. I’m getting a .577 Tyrannosaur, I can at least buy bullets for it, unlike the PTRS-41 I got from Marstar a few years ago ( what was I thinking? ) That should bring down a mammoth.

  21. Sorry, PTRD, the bolt action; It’s been a while since I had it out, it does not even have sights, one of those projects that never seem to get finished……

  22. Sounds like a really neat project and next in line I’d like a cloned velociraptor genetically modified to attack on being exposed to the scent of islamofascists. Maybe I’ve seen Jurassic Park too many times.
    From a molecular biology perspective it will be a fascinating project as one needs to try to find all the damage in the DNA and fix it. Being frozen for 10000 years is not very DNA friendly (nor is it very protein friendly as I found out after eating one of the steaks that had spent 20 years in the back of my freezer). Presumably the idea is to sequence the whole mammoth genome, a mammoth undertaking alone, as well as sequencing the elephant genome. Presumably there would be lots of homologous DNA and one quick and dirty way of cloning a mammoth is to start with elephant DNA and insert the mammoth bits.
    Assuming this is done, it will be interesting to see how correct we are about the function of various bits of “junk” DNA which I suspect are intimately involved in embryogenesis, creation of ribozymes, cellular control pathways we haven’t discovered yet, and nuclear cruft consisting of retroviral infections from past millenia and a bit of junk. Perhaps the “mammoth” might turn out to be some creature we’ve never seen before assuming that the embryo doesn’t abort spontaneously.
    Cloning now results in perhaps 1/100 implanted embryo’s surviving and to carry out this ambitious a project in a species with a very long gestational period is possibly a little over-ambitious. But, if they succeed the rewards will be mammoth sized.

  23. I’s rather have a T-Rex. I hear they’re better than Mammoths and Pit bulls.

  24. Something has to eat all those pulp wood trees now that the news papers have decided to join the mastadons voluntarily.
    A couple of 400 lb tenderloins in the freezer before ice fishing season would be nice too eh.

  26. I have drive-in Brontosaurus burgers on the mind for some strange reason now.
    I suppose with Obamba’s leadership, we all subconciously know where we are heading.

  27. In Dawson City, during the Gold Rush, hundreds of Mammoths were dug out of the ground (in the quest for Gold). The stink from the thawing of the ancient flesh (frozen in perma frost for a gazillion years) was dreadful but the tusks were huge and beautiful.
    Dawson City and the beautiful valleys around the Klondike Capital were never covered or shaved by ice during the last Ice Age. The big critters were instantly frozen on their feet. Where are the scientists on that ‘event’? No hockey stick needed for that kind of temp drop. Must have been the Ammonia gas from the gigantic droppings……

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