Something Mammoth at the Royal BC Museum

5 responses to “Something Mammoth at the Royal BC Museum”

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   jurvetson

   Feb 27, 2018 at 7:13 pm

   Ice Age selfie Better than the gilded fossil in MiamiPlenty of ancient mammoth DNA has been recovered from frozen tissue samples (but it is biologically nonviable and fragmented). It has already been sequenced into a data set. Genome-editing techniques (like George Church’s CRISPR) will convert that data to working genes and edit them into the living DNA of an Asian elephant to get a “mammoth” egg, which gets planted in a female Asian elephant in standard cloning mode. After many tries and adjustments, we begin to get live births of baby “mammoths.” Here is more information on that last step (demonstrated with birds: converting the gonads of a chicken so that when they mate, they lay a falcon egg) from Stewart Brand’s DeExtinction TED Talk.

   More on Pleistocene Park: Return of the Mammoth’s Ecosystem 🙂

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   Small Creatures

   Mar 3, 2018 at 9:42 pm

   A really classy image of a superb exhibit!

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   SubOrbitalBen

   Mar 5, 2018 at 2:52 pm

   So many good times at that museum.

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   pedrosimoes7

   Mar 11, 2018 at 12:54 am

   

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   Temari 09

   Mar 12, 2018 at 11:34 pm

   What a magnificent animal! (Pretty cool as a selfie background too) LOL Thanks for sharing with us.
   

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