Ginger Baby Mammoth Found Intact!

[Analog]

The shaggy ginger coat is just as bright as it was when the animal wandered over the ice-covered terrain.
Its eyes, foot pads and even internal organs are all intact. Yet this is a young woolly mammoth – which lived more than 10,000 years ago.
Its perfectly preserved body was discovered in the frozen ground of Siberia by tusk-hunters, who handed it over to scientists.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...cavemen-perfectly-preserved-10-000-years.html

 

[yh125d]

I thought for sure this was a joke thread title

 

[Hankysmoo]

Amazing pics. Thanks for sharing.

 

[amdhunter]

Time to extract that DNA.

 

[alkemyst]

Fucking snuffalupagus!

 

[Ns1]

I thought for sure this was a joke thread title

this

O_O

 

[Lithium381]

wow pretty sweet find, but how do they know it's a baby and not fully grown?

 

[alkemyst]

probably teeth.

 

[silverpig]

Fire up the clone-o-matic

 

[her209]

That's awesome.

 

[Baked]

I would like to order a baby wooly mammoth fur coat please. Size medium. Thanks.

 

[Eli]

Here's to hoping there's intact DNA!

 

[zinfamous]

poor guy probably didn't survive "Kick a Ginger Day."

 

[Ichinisan]

Even though the body is well-preserved, if the DNA material was frozen, it will present the same challenges as the others (molecular damage to DNA)...right?

 

[schneiderguy]

poor guy probably didn't survive "Kick a Ginger Day."

I prefer "kick a manlet day". Their heads are even in the perfect position for my foot to smash their faces in.

 

[Rifter]

So when does jurassic park reality edition open?

 

[zinfamous]

Even though the body is well-preserved, if the DNA material was frozen, it will present the same challenges as the others (molecular damage to DNA)...right?

depends on temperature and freeze/thaw.

DNA is pretty god damn stable at room temperature for quite some time (even in dead critters--but it does degrade), even better at 4 C, and damn near immortal at -20 C constant. The only problem, really, is repeated thaw and re-freezing can degrade it, but not by any terribly significant amount, really.

Whatever kept that tissue "fresh," I can only imagine it was a solid, constant freeze.

 

[SZLiao214]

They need to clone it so we can see what mammoth taste like.

 

[Soccerman06]

But did it have a soul?

 

[Xcobra]

That's a fucking awesome find. Amazing!

 

[KMc]

Hmmmmm....this didn't happen to occur last Sunday did it?

 

[manimal]

They need to clone it so we can see what mammoth taste like.

They already know what mammoth tastes like. There was a full sized one they dug up frozen that was flash frozen. The meat was so fresh they served it as hours douvres supposedly.



I personally think this is a new species. Manletosaurusalkemystus

 

[dennilfloss]

They already know what mammoth tastes like. There was a full sized one they dug up frozen that was flash frozen. The meat was so fresh they served it as hours douvres supposedly.

Details.

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2725/prehistoric-its-whats-for-dinner

 

[Texashiker]

Time to clone mammoths so we can have some mammoth steaks

 

[Fritzo]

New from McDonalds: Mammoth Burgers (slightly freezer burned)