Beerball Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 mammoth link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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The Senator Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 (edited) The Poles have been working on a similar cloning project for some time now... Work is under way in Poland and other countries to re-create the extinct primeval ox known in Polish as a “tur.” After the wooly mammoth became extinct some 10,000 years ago, the aurochs was Europe’s biggest land animal. Known by the scientific name of Bos primigenius (primeval ox), this was a huge wild bovine which was the predecessor of domesticated cattle...at the heart of the project is Professor Ryszard S³omski who heads the Biotechnology Department of Poznañ’s Natural Science University and has been doing research in that area for years. “We have learned how to read genetic information, and that has made the prospect of restoring extinct species closer than ever,” said Professor S³omski, who has studied at the University of Chicago, University of Illinois and Harvard Medical School. ( Link - Resurrecting Poland’s extinct wild ox? ) Why? Because... The aurochs has always held a special place in the heart of Poles, and medieval Poland hosted the continent’s largest population of the mighty horned beast. But already King Władysław Jagiełło placed the aurochs under royal protection at the turn of the 15th century. Nevertheless, poaching and disease caused their numbers to dwindle from 50 in 1557 to only four specimens in 1601...The beast’s Polish name “tur” is found in the names of numerous localities, and its image adorns various Polish coats of arms. “Turonie” is a traditional type of Polish Christmas caroling in which a home-spun figure of the shaggy bovine is carried along with a pole-mounted star and Christmas crib house to house. And such sayings as “silny jak tur” (strong as an aurochs) have survived in the Polish language to this day. Edited January 18, 2011 by The Senator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 mammoth link And the Bills will take it with the 4th pick in the draft, and STILL won't be able to protect the QB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dib Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 Why? Mammoth Burgers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KD in CA Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 Can't they do something useful like clone Catherine Bell? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoSaint Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 Has Jurassic park not hit screens in Poland yet? Bad idea dude. Bad idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Senator Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 (edited) Has Jurassic park not hit screens in Poland yet? Bad idea dude. Bad idea. Of course it has... Polish scientists had attempted to restore the tarpan, a wild pony that once roamed the steppes and forests of Eurasia, but the resultant Konik Polski (Little Polish Horse) is an approximation at best. The successful reintroduction of the bison (“¿ubr”), begun after World War I, did not involve back-breeding, since a new herd was started on the basis of specimens that had survived the war in various foreign zoos....It will still take considerable time, patience and money to recreate the Polish “tur” through a combination of Jurassic Park-style genetic procedures combined with the more traditional back-breeding...Since skeletal remains of the aurochs are scarce, even the exact appearance of the beast is largely based on verbal descriptions, caveman drawings and later artistic renderings. I am much more concerned about BeerSphere's reference to the Russians and Japanese attempt to clone the wild woolly mammoth - I saw a movie about the Godzilla monster once...even scarier was their attempt to clone a giant turtle... Edited January 18, 2011 by The Senator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truth on hold Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 (edited) Maybe they can clone the entire Bills team of the early-90's for us. Get er' done Ralph! Edited January 18, 2011 by Joe_the_6_pack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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