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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Mammoth Park, let's go, spare no expense

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Apparently the best we can do is elephants that look like mammoths.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Gotta get more frog dna in there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Frogs are turning the elephants gay. Or something.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

How do you know all the mammoths are females? Did someone go around and look up all their skirts?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Best I can do for your mammoth blood is five bucks.

I've got to get it into a decorative vial, then I've got to store it until I find a buyer, and the market is super niche. If you had come in fifteen years ago when True Blood was all the rage, and the vampires were still out in the open, it would be a different story.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Life, uh, uhh…

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Or mammoth restaurant

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Amazing. You'd think something as big as a mammoth would need more blood than that

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Damn those things live long huh

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Cue Jurassic Park theme

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

wow. so it's 10,010 years old now?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Apparently they have DNA from a few different ones now. They have 70-80% of the genome from these guys. The problem is the DNA is kinda falling apart and is mixed up with a bunch of microbes and other organic fodder, they're reconstructing the genome using elephant DNA structure as a guide.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Crazy seeing that in a Vacutainer/Vacuette tube, the standard transportation medium you'd see in any clinic/hospital for routine intravenous blood draw.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Down the hatch! Down the hatch!