Baby Mammoth

Kramer · Post by **Kramer** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 8:36 am

Apparently really well preserved, pretty badass imho

There are 10 pics on the site!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070711/ts_ ... mmoth_dc_2

Diekan · Post by **Diekan** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 1:29 pm

This is like the billionth mammoth discovered... it's not shocking or surpising anymore.

Kramer · Post by **Kramer** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 1:34 pm

didn't know they had discovered them in such a perserved state before...

if so, nm.

Post by **Arlos** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 2:44 pm

This is the best preserved one ever found, at least in modern times, from what I understand.

It is pretty astounding how well preserved some of the stuff they find up there is. 50-75 years ago, there was an expedition up there looking for frozen animals, and they found part of a wooly rhinoceros, and members of the expedition actually made wooly rhino stew.

Anyway, the better preserved the specimen, the greater the chance we can actually manage to obtain intact DNA samples. Finding intact DNA of an extinct species is one of the holy grails of paleontology, pretty much.

-Arlos

10sun · Post by **10sun** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 2:54 pm

Arlos wrote:This is the best preserved one ever found, at least in modern times, from what I understand.

It is the best preserved baby mammoth from what I read.
I am uncertain if that applies to all frozen mammoths or not.

-Adam

Ginzburgh · Post by **Ginzburgh** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 2:56 pm

Finding intact DNA of an extinct species is one of the holy grails of paleontology, pretty much.

And you know what happens after that.

Enter Jeff Goldblum.

Jennay · Post by **Jennay** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 4:15 am

Kramer · Post by **Kramer** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 11:12 am

kinghooter00 · Post by **kinghooter00** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 12:04 pm

my lord... :ugh: