{"id":4006,"date":"2012-09-12T06:29:35","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T20:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/?p=4006"},"modified":"2012-09-12T06:30:13","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T20:30:13","slug":"mammoth-clone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2012\/09\/mammoth-clone-4006.html","title":{"rendered":"Mammoth Clone Slightly More Likely"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many catastrophists would love to see the resurrection of the mammoth – if only so we could witness its failure to survive in Siberia (too cold).<\/p>\n

We’ve been teased over the years regarding the possibility, and here’s the latest (via The Guardian<\/a>):<\/p>\n

The North-Eastern Federal University said in a statement on Tuesday that an international team had discovered mammoth hair, soft tissues and bone marrow at a depth of 328ft (100m) during a summer expedition.<\/p>\n
Expedition chief Semyon Grigoryev said a group of Korean scientists with the team had set a goal of finding living cells in the hope of cloning a mammoth. Scientists have previously found bodies and fragments, but not living cells.<\/p>\n
Grigoryev told online newspaper Vzglyad it would take months of lab research to determine whether they have indeed found the cells.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Many catastrophists would love to see the resurrection of the mammoth – if only so we could witness its failure to survive in Siberia (too cold).
\nWe’ve been teased over the years regarding the possibility, and here’s the latest (via The Guardian):
\nThe North-Eastern Federal University said in a statement on Tuesday that an international team had discovered mammoth hair, soft tissues and bone marrow at a depth of 328ft (100m) during a summer expedition.
\nExpedition chief Semyon Grigoryev said a group of Korean scientists with the team had set a goal of finding living cells in the hope of cloning a mammoth. Scientists have previously found bodies and fragments, but not living cells.
\nGrigoryev told online newspaper Vzglyad it would take months of lab research to determine whether they have indeed found the cells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mammoths","category-megafauna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4006"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4016,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4006\/revisions\/4016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}