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| 5 FEB 2003 at 8:32pm |
GayleSchattenjger
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Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Status : Online | That is amazing and Yes I am for it too.
I take it that the temperatures were such a constant cold that it kept it intact.
Wow, something from 10,000 years ago, exciting and a bit scarey.
Wonder if they will find anything else in the area.
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| 6 FEB 2003 at 12:26am |
| Deleted User | Wow. I cant believe what im reading. I dont know much about Mammoths though. But arent they dangerious creatures? I mean a voilent one? With thier size anythings destructable. Yikes! The future is really scary, to think about it.
Gosh , what if they found DNA of those prehistoric humans from the Mommoth time. I wonder if they're going to make it alive too. I wonder if we'll have mutants in the future.Hmm.
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| 6 FEB 2003 at 12:12pm |
| Deleted User | Yes, the mammoths were permanently frozen in ice after they died. A frozen body cannot be revived with modern technology because the ice crystals cuts up the finer structures of the body, but DNA survives, and maybe they can even revive individual cells.
Wheter the mammoth were violent or not is something I don't think anyone really knows. After all, no living person has seen one alive. They look very similar to elephants, and they are relatively peaceful creatures. Their huge tusks probably had the same purpose as with other animals, namely so that it could be seen who is the strongest male so that fights can be avoided. Also, they lived in a very cold and barren part of the world, so I don't think they would have had a tendency to waste precious energy on being violent.
But I can imagine that killing one in the stone age was a very dangerous business, and required very brave people...
Maybe they can find frozen bodies of other animals up in Sibiria too, but the smaller they are, the harder they would be to find.
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| 8 FEB 2003 at 1:51am |
| Deleted User | I just remembered that mammoths are furry animals . It means that they have to stay in Sibira or in any cold place. I wonder if one day it does exist and it desides to go to Africa, what will happen to it because of thier thick fur. And maybe somebody would breed it for the fur. IIRC, thats one cause of thier death. Poachers.
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