Cloning the Wolly Mammoth

[knifegill]

I doubt it. Their gut flora would grow appropriately to maximize the digestion or whatever foods they are finding. The nutritional differences in various animal sources vary enough even within one species based on what it's fed that the original composition of a wild T-Rex diet would be similarly varied in both macronutrient and micronutrient composition. Without a direct and toxic or physical problem with mammal consumption, they should grow and breed well on modern animals. Much in the way introduced predators like bullfrogs thrive on whatever the heck is running around.

Even today, you can feed animals pseudo-foods like pellets made of corn and soy and they often are able to survive and breed in spite of it. Swapping out a diet of giant lizards for a diet of mammals isn't nearly as big a change as a dog has to make, born to eat everything from rabbits to raccoons to deer, but instead captively offered toxic corn pellets, and still surviving to adulthood.

 

[krichardson]

and giant plumes of gas would blow out their rear ends, resulting in the new dragons.

LOL...made me think of the nature show in which a pack of hyenas were dining on a dead elephant...One hyena shoved his head up the elephants butt causing the escaping gases to make a loud sound that briefly scared off the pack.

 

[petspoiler]

LOL...made me think of the nature show in which a pack of hyenas were dining on a dead elephant...One hyena shoved his head up the elephants butt causing the escaping gases to make a loud sound that briefly scared off the pack.

Lllz. I remember that one.

 

[cmsbthebest]

You know some oil rich dumbass in Dubai is going to want to taste one (anything can be done for the right amount of money) and then bam we get a new form of aids or bird flu or whatever epidemic.. It's cool and I want to see one but I would rather freeze it or kill it with fire...

Its already happened. Multiple people have eaten Mammoth recently and none have gotten sick and died of some new epidemic. There's a suprising amount of perfectly preserved meat out there.

 

[cmsbthebest]

The real problem with being able to clone these animals is to find a cell that can be brought back to life. Thats why the fresh blood is so interesting to me, and makes me feel like we are really close to finding a cell that can be cloned.

 

[Aquanero]

Mammoth has been eaten as stated above. Kinda like air dried beef. No fatalites reported other than a little acida.....burp.

 

[crappiekeeper]

They should clone dunkleosteus. I want one lol.

 

[hamster]

The world is crazy as it is why not add a mammoth in to the mix

 

[Akuma]

T rex was adapted to hunt prey smaller than himself. So he would do very well today. Allosaurus for example was build to hunt prey larger than himself and would not do so well, maybe in an ecosystem with intact macrofauna

 

[Chicxulub]

T rex was adapted to hunt prey smaller than himself. So he would do very well today. Allosaurus for example was build to hunt prey larger than himself and would not do so well, maybe in an ecosystem with intact macrofauna

Rex's primary prey items were hadrosaurs that were comparable in size to him or larger. He also fed on ceratopsians who were again, comparable in size or larger. To say that rex fed on items smaller than himself simply isn't true. That being said, I don't think he'd turn down a chance at a young hadrosaur or ceratopsian, but most prey items would be older, mature, likely sickly adults. Rex was very much adapted to eat large prey items. He possessed neither the speed or agility to catch something the size of a deer.