Comments on: Waking (and Cloning?) Baby Mammoths

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 00:55:43 +0000

First off shut the hell up abou the Jurassic park movies as it and it’s quotes are irrelevent to real world cloning. We could learn so much from cloning a mammoth bringing back recently extinct species would become possible

By: Mamut Liuba : El Rastreador de Noticias

Mamut Liuba : El Rastreador de Noticias — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 04:57:35 +0000

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By: Aurie Milner

Aurie Milner — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:12:35 +0000

look every-one just because there has been amazing scientifical break throughs to do with cloning personaly i feel we should think of all of the points of view. On one hand it would be increadable to see dinosaurs,mamoths and every other speices of prehistoric creatures yet would they really be able to survive in our morden sociaty they wouldn’t have a life outside of zoo’s and theame parks how would that be fair?
They might not even be able to breath in our atmosphere! is it fair to spend thousands maybe millions of pounds trying to bring back animals only to find out they die the second there born? we should all be working on preventing the extiction of the animals that already exist on our amazing planet instead of playing god.
Aurie age 13

By: Suzie

Suzie — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:03:02 +0000

Mo,

It quite possibly could have humans that put the mammoth down–so why not right our wrong?

Everyone else,
Anyway, I think it’s a pipe-dream. There are a lot of species-specific epigenetic factors tied to development that it’s seriously doubtful that signaling between an elephant mother and a mammoth fetus could be ‘sensical’ and sufficient enough for it actually carry through the entire term. But you never know, there are the mules and ligers–but it’s important to remember that these animals can’t produce viable offspring. Even if we can get an elephant-mammoth cross, the chances of the cross-generation being fertile are next to nil.

By: Mo

Mo — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:51:59 +0000

Hi Everyone

Cloning sounds fun and seeing such a thing with our own eyes (instead of pictures) sounds good, but I think there was a reason why nature has made that species extinct!

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:43:54 +0000

we should bring back mammoths and other exstinct animals so that we can learn from there species and ensure that life goes on aswell, “life will find a way” quote from jurassic park. but let’s leave the dangerouse dinosaurs as they are “exstinct” no one needs a t-rex running loose.

and as for stephen i would step on a cockroach, and i do eat beef.

it would be amazing to see a mammoth alive and well.

totally off subject:

humans are flawed in many ways we destroy what we create and we create to destroy what others created.

it’s human nature to look for answers and ask questions even if there is no answer.

we kill to survive and survive to try to create a better world for future generations but we fail when wars are started and destroy to bring peace to the countries at war.

how can we accomplish anything if we destroy what can be fixed?

if humans can coexist with everything around them and not destroy everything just to create what will one day be destroyed either by natural desasters or humans.
one day we all will be destroyed if we keep going down this turbulant path of destruction.

either we learn from the mistakes we have been making or we die from our mistakes.

we all have our own beliefs but i dont see too many people around the world believing that we humans can change the world to better ourselves and the future generations of all species of the world including humans.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:13:30 +0000

We would learn a whole lot more from a cloned and alive mamouth rather than a dead one whether it be just the one or hundreds to restart the speices. CLONE LYUBA… WHY NOT! its a great idea.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:20:49 +0000

The article says it is beyond our technology to clone this mammoth. But could it work if a process were used like with Dolly but use the egg of African or Indian Elephant to create the mammoth embryo and then implant the embryo into a female elephant to carry the mammoth to term?

Baby elephants eat the dung of adult elephants to establish enzymes they need for digesting vegetation. A cloned mammoth would not inherit anything from its previous generation except DNA since it separated from its previous generation by 40,000. That might make the milk found in the stomach of the baby important if they did try to clone it.

Maybe the mammoth would have a better chance of surviving if it were could raised by captive Indian Elephants and if it turned out that they had similar immune systems the mammoth might acquire into its body the organismd it needs survive in the world today.

Unless we find we find more Mammoths DNA there will only be one carbon copy mammoth unless they started inbreeding so there realty could not be herds because there would be no genetic diversity.

As humans we are very inconsistent in the respect and sacredness we give to different living things whether it be a cockroach, a cow, or a mammoth. If we did try to clone a mammoth it would consistent with the existing ethics we live by. It would seem sad and cruel and become very unpopular if baby mammoth died, was unhealthy or seemed unhappy.

By: J.Stedman

J.Stedman — Mon, 11 May 2009 07:10:04 +0000

Another theory-
With the dragon skeltons they found in the frozen ice cave, i believe they should try to clone them. ?

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 02 May 2009 13:43:37 +0000

We are still working in the dark ages. This will all change as time and knowledge/technology advances. What was impossible yesterday (heavier-than-air machines will never fly), is common practice today. What is impossible today (cloning, other-than-oil energy) will be commonplace tomorrow.

Just be patient… T-Rex, the Mammoths, Pterosaurs, they’ll all be there.