[HN Gopher] Mummified baby woolly mammoth found in the Yukon
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       Mummified baby woolly mammoth found in the Yukon
        
       Author : zthrowaway
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2022-06-25 19:01 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (yukon.ca)
 (TXT) w3m dump (yukon.ca)
        
       | johnthuss wrote:
       | Does that mean we have the genetic material to clone one of these
       | now?
        
         | sandworm101 wrote:
         | 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.
        
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