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Wooly Rhino Mummy Discovered in Siberia
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Wooly Rhino Mummy Discovered in Siberia
Fascinating find in the permafrost.  Basically a mummified 4 year old wooly rhino, a now extinct species, with an estimated age of 30,000 ybp.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/25/science/w...index.html


Quote:Woolly rhino found preserved in Russian permafrost after 32,000 years

Quote:Scientists have uncovered a woolly rhino so well preserved in the Russian permafrost for more than 32,000 years that its skin and fur are still intact.
This woolly rhino died when it was about four years old and that age, combined with its good state of preservation, has allowed scientists to learn more about the now-extinct species.
“The vast, vast majority of remains from Ice Age animals are bones and teeth without any flesh or skin or anything like that,” Love Dalén, a professor of evolutionary genomics at Stockholm University who wasn’t involved in this study but has studied the remains of other animals found preserved in Siberian permafrost, told CNN[color=var(--appr-color-text-primary)].[/color]

Hope the local peasants don't eat it.
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Wooly Rhino Mummy Discovered in Siberia
I wonder if it has intact DNA left that can be manipulated for cloning?
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(09-25-2024, 09:03 PM)brewerb Wrote: I wonder if it has intact DNA left that can be manipulated for cloning?

If so yay...
Mammoth burgers and fur coats.
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(09-25-2024, 10:40 PM)Edible crust Wrote:
(09-25-2024, 09:03 PM)brewerb Wrote: I wonder if it has intact DNA left that can be manipulated for cloning?

If so yay...
Mammoth burgers and fur coats.

With teeth, skin and hair follicles, I’m sure they can get DNA.  Cloning it might be a bit more tricky but if a current relative can surrogate, why not!  No comment on how it’d taste.
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(09-25-2024, 09:03 PM)brewerb Wrote: I wonder if it has intact DNA left that can be manipulated for cloning?

I recall reading somewhere that they found intact dna in Greenland on the order of two million years old.
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Maybe a late pet of yours? Tongue
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Bad timing......I'm 75 today.


Fuck.
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Well then Happy Birthday, Min!
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(09-26-2024, 04:56 AM)Minimalist Wrote: Bad timing......I'm 75 today.


Fuck.

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Many happy returns, bud.
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I don't know how many more I want.
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(09-26-2024, 04:56 AM)Minimalist Wrote: Bad timing......I'm 75 today.


Fuck.

Happy. Birthday.  Dance Girl_yes2 Girl_devil
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