Baby mammoth

[DesertFox]

A baby mammoth unearthed in the permafrost of north-west Siberia could be the best preserved specimen of its type, scientists have said.

The frozen carcass is to be sent to Japan for detailed study.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/07/sci_nat_enl_1184007948/img/1.jpg

Cold-ass baby

The six-month-old female calf was discovered on the Yamal peninsula of Russia and is thought to have died 10,000 years ago.

The animal's trunk and eyes are still intact and some of its fur remains on the body.

Mammoths are an extinct member of the elephant family. Adults often possessed long, curved tusks and a coat of long hair.

More (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6284214.stm)

[DesertFox]

I never realized mammoths were so close to elephants. That little gal looks just like one.

[DesertFox]

Also, it looks like she was caught pert near in midstride by whatever froze her. Since she's intact, it couldn't have been a snowslide or avalanche. Whatever it was, musta been near-instantaneous.

Now THAT's climate change.

[DesertFox]

Looks starved, though. Wouldn't be good eating, I'm afraid.

[DesertFox]

But you just never know. Frozen mammoth steaks, fresh off the skeleton, might be tasty. You could bobby Q them with some Hunt's sauce, add a little tabasco, toss in some mushrooms, maybe a jalapeno.

[buckeyepete]

Question!-- Doesn't that crate look too small for the length and width at the rear hips?

Also, do we see a "cloning" in the near future. Gotta be a whole lotta DNA in that body. Frozen too.

[Wolfcounsel]

"Also, do we see a "cloning" in the near future. Gotta be a whole lotta DNA in that body. Frozen too." --buckeyepete

I think cloning of extinct animals is going on at this time, via private research and funding. The poop's gonna hit the fan, also.<!-- / message --><!-- sig -->

[Charity]

It's so cute :-)

[Franko]

Freeze-dried mammoths - just pump some fluid into him and he'll blow up real good! lol

Reports from long ago stated pack dogs had eaten mammoth meat with no ill-effect.

I predict scientists to eventually find that the mammoth actually has more genetic information (ability to adapt to different environments for example) in him than present day elephants.

[DesertFox]

In The Gulag Archipelago, Solzhenitsyn cites a Soviet newspaper where zeks had uncovered a dinosaur in Kolyma and ate it "with relish."

The article didn't say where prison laborers got aholt to relish. :D

[buzzthepug!]

Cloning dinosaurs???? Are scientists that bored? Why don't they think of a cure for arthritis - somthing that the majority of the population suffers with sooner or later?

When you're hungry, anything tastes good.

[DesertFox]

Not all scientists are interested in curing arthritis. Like most things, them dudes and dudesses follow what interests them.

That was Solzhenitsyn's point: The Soviet govt starving its prisoners to the point that they would eat anything that appeared edible.

[BabyBeastie]

That is one cool baby beastie! Heh heh...