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Liquid blood from 10,000-year-old mammoth (2013)
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Mammoth Park, let's go, spare no expense
Apparently the best we can do is elephants that look like mammoths.
Gotta get more frog dna in there.
Frogs are turning the elephants gay. Or something.
How do you know all the mammoths are females? Did someone go around and look up all their skirts?
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.
Life, uh, uhh…
Or mammoth restaurant
Amazing. You'd think something as big as a mammoth would need more blood than that
Lick it
Damn those things live long huh
Cue Jurassic Park theme
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.
wow. so it's 10,010 years old now?
Crazy seeing that in a Vacutainer/Vacuette tube, the standard transportation medium you'd see in any clinic/hospital for routine intravenous blood draw.
Down the hatch! Down the hatch!
this post was submitted on 16 Jul 2023
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