Sounds all cool, but i have seen jurassic park, it aint gunna end well

They'll need it for tigers, polar bears and 10000000+ other species soon sadly enough...

Great. Just what we need. A perfectly non-viable species extinct because of climate change resurrected in an era of... climate change. Brilliant! One huge boondoggle of science where research could be apportioned for the preservation of existing species.

I think I need an MRI now because of this mini-stroke of anger.

lame

It's about splicing creatures together to make new and exciting animals

Like what happens when you mix a horse and a donkey together? Yeah that would be awesome to see!

There is only one thing out of these mammoths I want to know...how will they taste?

It will be interesting. The biggest problem with cloning extinct animals is that DNA has no inherent meaning outside of a specific environment. The machine that reads the instructions is just as important as the instructions themselves. What a living, reproducing species has is a set of instructions that, when put in a specific machine (the cellular environment of the egg, and the environment that the embryo develops in), it creates an organism with that same machine, more or less. When you just take DNA, you have to hope you can find a machine close enough to the original that can actually follow those instructions the way you want it to. Theoretically, we could make an environment that reads mammoth DNA and spits out a toaster.

Don't be an ass.

It already exists, when a donkey and a horse have a kid together it gives a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mule Half horse half donkey.

But the best mix is by far a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Zeedonk_800.jpg Half zebra, half donkey.

It's already amazing what the mixing of genes and random evolution can sometime create naturally, so I don't think splicing is necessary!

...that was the joke.

Gah, stuff like this makes me nervous.

woe, the irony!! :rofl:

This

Make me up when they clone a Ratwar. I'll need to kill it then.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5R3g5i_1eKk&feature=related

Looks like Ray Romano is going to be out of a job. Again.

If anything, I think it should be the thylacine we bring back, considering it was unequivocally wiped out by European settlers of Australia.

I demand dodo birds.

Yeah, that occurred to me, too, but if they could bring the lion back, they could train 'em for 'funding acquisition' :shifty:.

But if they had a kid together wouldn't that make them goats?

@ The red duke
They're are so many claimed sightings of thylacines in Tasmania were I live. I personally havnt seen any *shrugs*

About the Mammoth:
I've been waiting for this day.

I saw a Kabutops running around the other day. <_<

The McMammoth.

I can already see it happening, and I for one am looking forward to eating Burger King's version of it.

so when will the "Baby mammoth vacuum cleaners" be sold?