Narz
keeping it real
Not sure if polar bears are equipped to commit gang warfare upon a mammoth. They're used to picking on much smaller fry.
Reviving a woolly mammoth
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Narz
keeping it real
So we buy them motorboats! There's a technological solution to every problem
MobBoss
Off-Topic Overlord
Wrong. They are drowning because they have to swim further and further for food resources. Or at least thats the allegation.
Who said anything about the bears having to kill one? They can scavenge dead mammoths just like they scavgenge dead whales.
Narz
keeping it real
MobBoss
Off-Topic Overlord
Lolz
Point being the wouldnt be drowning if they werent hungry there dude. One is simply the symptom of the bigger problem....
I don't know about that. The Giant Space Squid are losing the war.
Narz
keeping it real
I know mobby, I'm just amusing myself.
SG-17
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At least not yet...
However, I thought they already made a half breed mammoth?
Like they took sperm from the Jakov(sp?) Mammoth, and used it to fertilize a female Asian Elephant's egg and it worked.
I saw it on Discovery a few years ago. However I can't find anything online about it.
TheLastOne36
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Why don't we clone something small and insignificint first like a dodo?
Simple Simon
Simpleton
really? You think an arrow into the back and a stone-ax slap that shatters the skull are 'natural'?
weird ideas you be having, young man!
Luckymoose
The World is Mine
I don't think we have any good DNA of them, as most were cooked anyway. The Mammoth makes sense as we have frozen bodies of them that can still provide enough genetic material to do some good.
I want to see them successfully clone an extinct animal for many reasons, not only would it be a great stepping stone into bringing back natural ecosystems, but it would be an amazing leap in our sciences. Imagine being able to learn about extinct animals by simply cloning one. It would really improve our knowledge of evolution among other things.
what if we like go on a spree of gathering DNA from every like species then like make a bank of it then we like can make DNA legos 
and then when we like go to Mars can like clone ourselves a like whole ecosystem, wouldn't like that be the like awesomist thing ever? it would be like totally radical... (goes back to smoking weed)
(J/K I've never done drugs)
and then when we like go to Mars can like clone ourselves a like whole ecosystem, wouldn't like that be the like awesomist thing ever? it would be like totally radical... (goes back to smoking weed)(J/K I've never done drugs)
really? You think an arrow into the back and a stone-ax slap that shatters the skull are 'natural'?
weird ideas you be having, young man!
I was operating on the assumption that he did something to deserve it, in which case it is perfectly natural that he got himself killed.
It's perfectly natural to die when there's a hatchet in your skull, anyway.
Masquerouge
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Yeah. I don't want to imagine the impact hordes of mammoths will have on the regions they'd be released in.
Not an anti-tank gun, no, but probably a spear.
