The Book Of THoTH

This came out the other day that I thought was pretty cool. It's about the, almost perfectly preserved & complete, 1 month old baby mammoth dubbed " Lyuba" that was discovered 2 years ago in the Russian north .

National Geographic has an excellent section devoted to this story. I only included a couple of links here as it is far better to go in & explore the whole thing. The article gives some of the findings from the last 2 years:



Mammoth Facts

I have always been a little envious of our ancestors, getting to see the great herds of mammoths and mastodons roaming the plains of North America. That had to be truly awe inspiring. I hope they do try to clone one, I feel it would be a step in the right direction.

My god, that was great, I'm so mad I missed the show. Thank goodness for the video.

Thanks so much TC.


I don't know about cloning though. Like you said before painterfrog envious of seeing great herds... envious of ancestors... none of that would happen if it was cloned. Just a thought.

Depends on how many I can fit on my 5 acres

If the process were to begin immediately, it may be plausible to see something like that in 75 to 100 years. Some of our younger members might have the opportunity to see small herds develop in 50 or so years & some of us may get to see some young adults trying to put into use what they learned from their surrogate parents.

This would depend partly on how a regular herd will react to a slightly different version of themselves. Then there would be the pathogens that may have been introduced to their environment via fauna &/or fauna. As well, might they themselves re-introduce some long resting microbial or viral threat? We have a general idea as to the cause of the extinction of these great beasts but?

As with any predator/prey interaction, it's the weak (via whatever reasons) that normally get preyed upon. If a contagion happened to naturally endanger a population, the influence of predators (including man) would cause further stress to that group. This could happen from say an unusually hot or cold season(s). A normally controllable microbe could be waiting in the wings & just may have been the ultimate downfall of the mammoths. We don't know.

Anyway, I agree it would be a dream to see these magnificent giants in their natural habitat .