Re: Bringing Back The Mammoth (again)

[Phillip Bigelow <bigelowp@juno.com>]

> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2312860,00.html
> 
> BODIES of extinct Ice Age mammals, such as woolly mammoths, that 
> have been 
> frozen in permafrost for thousands of years may contain viable sperm 
> that 
> could be used to bring them back from the dead, scientists said 
> yesterday.
> 
 

If they're planning to make hybrids, they had better hurry up.  The
"refigerator" seems to be currently set to Defrost:

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/discoveries/2006-08-14-greenland-war
ming_x.htm


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