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CryptoZoo => Dinosaurs => Topic started by: Devious Viper on August 15, 2006, 07:01:31 AM

Title: Mammoth Regeneration
Post by: Devious Viper on August 15, 2006, 07:01:31 AM
Mammoth comeback is possible say experts
JOHN VON RADOWITZ

The woolly mammoth could be brought back from extinction using sperm extracted from animals encased in ice.

Researchers have already found that sperm taken from the frozen reproductive organs of dead mice can produce viable offspring.

Writing in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, they suggest that sperm from frozen mammoths could be used to bring the extinct creatures back to life.

The idea would be to inject mammoth sperm, assuming it could be retrieved, into the eggs of female elephants.

A successful pregnancy would produce the closest thing possible to a living woolly mammoth, the result of crossing one of the extinct animals with a close modern-day relative.

Sperm is routinely frozen for IVF treatment, but has to be carefully stored and protected.

The new research showed it is possible simply to freeze whole male mice, or their reproductive organs, and use the sperm extracted from them to produce offspring.

In one test, sperm were retrieved from the bodies of mice that had been kept frozen at minus 20C for 15 years.

Some of the sperm successfully fertilised eggs after being injected into them.

It was not known how long viable sperm could be frozen in animal bodies, the researchers said. But the findings raised the intriguing prospect of resurrecting extinct animals that had remained frozen since the ice age.
Title: Re: Mammoth Regeneration
Post by: Shadowborn on August 21, 2006, 01:35:24 PM
I saw a program on Discovery that discussed this, after the last find of a nearly intact specimen in Siberia. The plan would be to breed hybrids using African elephants, then breeding the hybrids. Apparently, they would have nearly full-blooded specimens within...what was it? Four generations?

I'm not sure exactly what the point would be, or where they would keep them. Tundra up in Yukon territory, perhaps?
Title: Re: Mammoth Regeneration
Post by: ImmortalKain on June 23, 2008, 01:17:01 AM
I love the thought of being able to go to the zoo and ride the wolly mammoth instead of an elephant. But Shadowborn is right. Where would we keep them? And my thought is... things are extinct for a reason. The Higher Plan and all that.
 
 Anyone besides me not remember the "Frozen Sperm Collection Booth" at job fair??   :|

What? You missed that one?  :wink:  It was my favorite one!  *<:)
Title: Re: Mammoth Regeneration
Post by: Kadesh on June 23, 2008, 05:11:56 PM
 Oh no... Kain applied for that one! We're going to have Wooley Mammoth Vampires!  :doh:
Title: Re: Mammoth Regeneration
Post by: whitefox17 on July 06, 2008, 06:20:16 AM
it really a bad idea ya they taste good and the pronx used for sport hunting but they are realy big (yummy) animals and a bulet isnt going to stop one
its like they dinosaur they're going to make out of a emu but the bad idea is giving it a human intelligence and making it a carnivore the same with the mammoth its going to have the brain of a more intelligent animal which will be vedy bad
Title: Re: Mammoth Regeneration
Post by: Kadesh on July 31, 2008, 10:54:18 PM
 Dude... you seriously might want to consider taking a chill pill.... "The Higher Plan" comment was just a joke.
Title: Re: Mammoth Regeneration
Post by: Kadesh on July 31, 2008, 11:13:33 PM
 I'm an animal lover myself, but I don't know that much about extinct species. And as for the smilies... I'm an addict! Can't help myself... oh well.
Title: Re: Mammoth Regeneration
Post by: TheTerror on August 16, 2008, 12:35:59 PM
humans should not play god
Title: Re: Mammoth Regeneration
Post by: ImmortalKain on August 17, 2008, 11:12:18 AM
Humans can only pretend to play god. they have the illusion they are in control of things  *<:) I gave up that delusion long ago
Title: Re: Mammoth Regeneration
Post by: Kadesh on August 17, 2008, 01:14:45 PM
 But it's good to know you still cling to so many others.  :roll:  :-*
Title: Re: Mammoth Regeneration
Post by: ImmortalKain on August 17, 2008, 05:34:45 PM
Indeed I do  :wink:
Title: Re: Mammoth Regeneration
Post by: TheTerror on August 17, 2008, 05:40:23 PM
well the illusions need to end
Title: Re: Mammoth Regeneration
Post by: Kadesh on August 17, 2008, 05:42:28 PM
 Who said anything about illusions? ..........  :? I'm pretty sure he can keep whatever delusions he wants to..
Title: Re: Mammoth Regeneration
Post by: TheTerror on August 17, 2008, 05:44:06 PM
no humans
thinkin they are god
Title: Re: Mammoth Regeneration
Post by: Kadesh on August 17, 2008, 05:46:02 PM
 We weren't talking about that anymore......... Now who's suffering from illusions??
Title: Re: Mammoth Regeneration
Post by: TheTerror on August 17, 2008, 05:53:59 PM
um I dunno
humans?
I really thought you guys were still on the human thing
Title: Re: Mammoth Regeneration
Post by: Kadesh on August 17, 2008, 05:56:03 PM
 Oy Vey!  :doh:  *<:)
Title: Re: Mammoth Regeneration
Post by: ImmortalKain on August 17, 2008, 06:01:32 PM
Nope we threw some rocks on that track a while back and off that train went  *<:) *<:) *<:) *<:) Next time jump off before it derails  :wink:  Just messing with ya  :-D
Title: Re: Mammoth Regeneration
Post by: Kadesh on August 17, 2008, 06:04:12 PM
 *<:) Beautiful advice.  :roll:
Title: Re: Mammoth Regeneration
Post by: thneedly on September 21, 2008, 01:42:35 AM
This thread makes me lol.
Title: Re: Mammoth Regeneration
Post by: Kadesh on September 22, 2008, 11:40:02 PM
 Just try not to pee yourself while you're doing it.  :wink:


  :focus:



 Seriously though.. I want one if they can do it. I want it as a fuzzy wuzzy widdwe baby.. awwww  :-P
Title: Re: Mammoth Regeneration
Post by: thneedly on September 22, 2008, 11:51:14 PM
Hell yeah! I'd love a pet mammoth.
I'd raise it to be ridiculously mean but recognize me as its supreme master and overlord, then deck it out in some insanely awesome armor and mount an armored howdah on the back with some wicked gun turrets and ballistas and catapults with spikey things on its tusks and trunk and other crazy sh*t like that and ride my Grimdark War Mammoth of Doominous Death across the country and smash things and kill people.

Oh yes, my plans for world domination are AWESOME. :evil: *<:) :evil:
Title: Re: Mammoth Regeneration
Post by: ImmortalKain on September 23, 2008, 07:44:40 AM
Hey, I'll throw in on that  <^>  I'm not cleaning up its mammoth s**ts though  :lol:
Title: Re: Mammoth Regeneration
Post by: Regina Terra on September 23, 2008, 12:14:40 PM
I bet anybody would make millions with that excellent fertilizer though. *<:)
Title: Re: Mammoth Regeneration
Post by: Kadesh on September 23, 2008, 08:19:39 PM
  *<:) *<:)  I can just see Kain... following behind my fuzzy wuzzy little mammoth with a doodie bag..... and it poos...... he goes to catch it..... and is covered in shyte!  *<:) *<:)
Sorry dear.. too funny to resist!  :-*