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Re:Mummified baby woolly mammoth found in the Yukon by sandworm101 on Saturday June 25, 2022 @06:53PM (#31879397)
No. Preservation of the physical form and preservation of the underlying DNA are two different things. Even then, we cannot just combine DNA from random animals spread apart by thousands of years and expect it all to just work. The number of failed embryos would be immense. Just look to the failure rate at the dog cloning services. I cannot imagine anyone wanting to handle hundreds of failed elephant pregnancies, spread across decades, that it would take to follow through with this idea.
Re:Mummified baby woolly mammoth found in the Yukon by colordrops on Sunday June 26, 2022 @02:08AM (#31881532)
Why would you need to combine the DNA of random animals? Surely a well enough preserved specimen will have endless cells from which to sample DNA and piece together a full sequence.
Re:Mummified baby woolly mammoth found in the Yukon by sdenton4 on Sunday June 26, 2022 @03:10AM (#31881815)
Why because of all those holes in sequence, of course! Gotta add some frog DNA if you don't want any gaps. Mr. DNA explained it all very clearly back in 1993: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUaFYzFFbBU
Re:Mummified baby woolly mammoth found in the Yukon by iancmceachern on Saturday June 25, 2022 @09:16PM (#31880161)
What is the failure rate in dog cloning services?
Re:Mummified baby woolly mammoth found in the Yukon by sandworm101 on Saturday June 25, 2022 @09:25PM (#31880203)
The quoted number is 20% but that is success of each procedure, each of which might involve multiple embryos being implanted. Remember though that dog cloning is working with perfect and complete samples, not degraded DNA from a frozen bog body.
Re:Mummified baby woolly mammoth found in the Yukon by SoftTalker on Saturday June 25, 2022 @09:35PM (#31880255)
I've never heard of this. What is the market? Who wants a cloned dog?
Re:Mummified baby woolly mammoth found in the Yukon by sethammons on Sunday June 26, 2022 @08:12AM (#31883240)
Some service dogs are really unique. I watched a program last evening. A young lady has a condition where she can pass out without warning. This caused her to be house-ridden. She got a dog as a pet and it turns out her dog can sense an oncoming episode and she gets a 5 minute warning. She can now rejoin society. Until the dog dies. A clone and some socialized training with the first dog could enable her to continue being outside the house.
Re:Mummified baby woolly mammoth found in the Yukon by sandworm101 on Sunday June 26, 2022 @12:31PM (#31885371)
Getting the original to actively train their clone replacement? That is some black mirror-level creepy.
Re:Mummified baby woolly mammoth found in the Yukon by Firmwarrior on Sunday June 26, 2022 @06:42PM (#31888813)
haha, I've been in that situation myself. The replacement was born a couple of years ago, and I'm being forced to change her poop-filled diapers, teach her how to talk..
Re:Mummified baby woolly mammoth found in the Yukon by sandworm101 on Saturday June 25, 2022 @09:37PM (#31880269)
Rich people who will pay 50k for a copy of thier dead dog rather than adopt one from a shelter.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60924936

Re:Mummified baby woolly mammoth found in the Yukon by cjbgkagh on Saturday June 25, 2022 @10:16PM (#31880485)
A lot of behaviors are genetic, it’ll probably behave quite similar to the cloned dog.
Re:Mummified baby woolly mammoth found in the Yukon by npteljes on Sunday June 26, 2022 @06:20AM (#31882591)
In case someone wants to read more - a person who did this with their cat recently gave an AMA on Reddit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/uupphp/i_cloned_my_la...

Re:Mummified baby woolly mammoth found in the Yukon by bravasaurus on Sunday June 26, 2022 @04:15AM (#31882055)
YouTubers with famous pets are supposedly doing this. The mind boggles.