Holy Jurassic Park!
–Japanese scientists have successfully cloned a mouse from a frozen cell taken from a specimen dead for 16 years. Their next goal?–A mammoth! A rather well-preserved baby mammoth was discovered in Russia slightly over a year ago.
What’s next?–Elvis?–Let’s remember that restoring that frozen shape-shifting alien in John Carpenter’s The Thing didn’t work out too well…
(–Two paws up for President-Elect Barack Obama!)
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FOXSYLVANIA 
February 26, 2009 at 5:08 am
Well, they have had success cloning Asian gaur calves through domestic cows? Why not clone a mammoth through a modern zoo-born elephant?
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