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In case all you fans of Woolly Mammoth cloning missed it, you may wish to check out How Mammoth Cloning Became Fake News from February 2017. Please pardon my lateness to the Woolly's fake news party but I've been busily posting here and over there. And now, sadly for all hapless readers who've done nothing to deserve it, the time has come for a snippet of bad yet very brief poetry of the

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Now here's some Science News of a mystery solved: Scientists recover ancient DNA from a bizarre Ice Age mammal that stumped Darwin "180 years after it was first found by the naturalist." At last! Maybe the beast can rest in peace now that his relation to horses and rhinos has been revealed thanks to a DNA specimen discovered in Chile. Here's an artists' rendition of the charmer now (you're

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Just because we can, doesn't mean we should...maybe tinkering with life's grand designs shouldn't be done by mere earthlings!

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Two teams of scientists are working on the project to bring back the Woolly Mammoth, one using DNA splicing and the other cloning. And if you're read this blog of science poems before this minute you know that yours truly is greatly discomfited by the thought of The Return of the Woolly Mammoth. After all, their first reign upon the Earth wasn't stellar or in any way spectacular, was it? And it

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Not to alarm you but here's the current scoop: Last of 'too silky' woolly mammoths blighted by bad mutations, a disturbing headline for woolly mammoth devotees to read but facts must be faced wherever they are found. On an island between Russia and Alaska, Wrangel Island, mammoths frolicked in icier days and left behind study materials for scientists of the fossil persuasion. It seems that

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Did you hear about the Mystery Surrounding a Massive Woolly Mammoth Graveyard full of bones from several mammoths? Well, even though it's been quite a while since poetry was inspired by woolly mammoth news here on Woolly Mammoth Chronicles, here's a small offering in honor of such a curious mystery: Those mammoth bones found in a pit concern me not a little bit for if a clone should come to

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With the cloning of a "gentle giant" Woolly Mammoth creeping closer to reality thanks to genome sequencing, the opinion of a University of Chicago scientist precisely echoes my own thoughts about the project: "It won't be that long till we're technically able to do it, but whether we should is a different question," Lynch told Live Science, referring to cloning a mammoth. "I don't think we

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Now this is interesting! Prehistoric remains have been found in the caves of County Clare, Ireland! But no word of any Woolly Mammoths that might have roamed about the neighborhood!

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By Mauricio Antón [Creative Commons License 2.5] via Wikimedia Commons June 13, 2015: By now you know that in early 2011, Japanese scientists announced their determination to clone a Woolly Mammoth back to life within 5 years (2016). Meanwhile in the US, a first step has been taken by Harvard geneticist George Church and his colleagues: Woolly Mammoth DNA Inserted into Elephant

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In Astrology, Mercury Loves New Discoveries, Ideas, and Teaching Science With Science's nod to the Roman god Mercury and the wings on his/her mythological helmet, an aptly-named new dinosaur, the Mercuriceratops gemini, has been discovered--or rather its fossils have turned up in Montana and Canada. Are those happy cheers I hear from little children, those dinosaur fans we all love to

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Some amazing yet disturbing news from the Realm of Genetics is announced: Revealed: Scientists 'edit' DNA to correct adult genes and cure disease. And here is one rhymish reaction from yours truly which may just be groan worthy enough for you--I know it is for me: They work to edit DNA and find out how we got that way our deepest flaws they shall reveal man's very nature they will steal.

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This 51-minute video details mammoth hunting and ivory collection in Siberia: Well, Woolly Mammoths aren't using their tusks at all these days. Why not profit? say ivory hunters. Uh oh. I feel a substandard limerick coming on... Hunting mammoths for their tusks may not satisfy a lust but for Science mixed with greed we'll snag all the tusks we need. jc march 3, 2014 (c) For more

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Did dinosaurs take good care of their babies? The following 57-minute video presentation is for those who are curious about the creatures and want to catch up on new theories concerning them. That's not me so much, but perhaps it's you...? Once dinosaurs did stomp about a long long time ago they're gone bye-bye for now at least their eggs and fossils show (And for this I am thankful.) jc

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Besides, Aren't Frets Over Woolly Mammoth Clones Enough All Ready? by a disgruntled Jude Cowell Yes, you're right that disgruntlement comes naturally to me yet now a new fret affects my brain and it involves the venerable Technorati website which I joined so many moons ago. Here's the problem: it seems like no matter how hard I try, I cannot enter correctly the claim code into the core of WMC

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More Adventures in Cloning by Jude Cowell If you're fretfully uncertain about the wisdom of Science's whole cloning endeavor, here's a disturbing headline: Stem Cells Produced from Cloning Technique for First Time in which the journal Cell is cited for its report that human embryos which are copies of living people have been used to make stem cells. An up-side is that this breakthrough

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Another Poem of Woolly Mammoth Fret by Jude Cowell When Woolly Mammoth walked the earth he was the latest thing but if they clone a Woolly back such stomping it will bring. jc 4/19/13 The above (thankfully very brief) verse was composed on the spot just for you! And little did I realize that a while back my Scottish friend, astrologer and author Anne Whitaker, wrote a lovely piece

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Good news for fans of William Shakespeare who'd like a more modern way to enjoy his work and don't mind messing with a double helix of literary proportions! Scientists have stored all 154 of Shakespeare's sonnets on snippets of DNA. Whether this act of preservation will inspire high school students to find new fascination within the works of The Bard of Avon is unknown. Do I feel some kind

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Today is December 6, 2012 and it seems like an era has passed since I posted here on Woolly Mammoth Chronicles. A new baby in the house is one reason for my busy-ness and publishing articles and horoscopes to my Political Astrology blog is another. Returning to WMC to find that some of the videos I embedded here have been removed due to "copyright infringement" grumps me up for it's not as if

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Well, it's been way too long since I had a chance to post here at WMC and I'm finding this related video of a 1976 documentary irresistible and must embed it right away. I actually remember seeing this vintage film with actor Peter Graves hosting years ago and though there are no Woolly Mammoths stomping about, you may enjoy a look at an Ice Age topic, elusive though its creature may be! It's

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Yucky yuck yuck! Here's progressive broadcaster Thom Hartmann reporting on the apparent environmental effects of excessive gas-passing which scientists say may have issued forth in abundance from the distended bellies of prehistoric dinosaurs. My question: Even the veggie dinos? Then perhaps Beano would have proven useful! As far as I know, there's no word yet from scientists concerning a

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February 11, 2012 Athens, GeorgiaWhy did the Woolly cross the creek? To get caught in a blurry video!Having not lurked about this blog of fretful Woolly Mammoth rhymes for a while, it is with a measure of gladness that I announce to you a fresh post to my Gather.com page inspired by a newly written Ode and dedicated to my fellow Gatherers, past and present, who by happenstance may roam about one

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Have you heard? A December 16, 2011 indictment charges Alaska river guide Karen Jettmar with two felonies--conspiracy and helping a client smuggle a 10,000 year-old mammoth tusk to Pennsylvania.What use anyone in Pennsylvania has for a purloined mammoth tusk, I can't say, but I bet the author of The Alaska River Guide wishes she hadn't followed a criminal course, don't you?This calls for the

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The Ghost in Your GenesA Documentary by BBC HorizonSpeaking of DNA and other fascinating topics, have you seen this BBC presentation before? Then if you wish, harken ye back to old Granny and Grampy, pour the cider-tinis, and relax for a spell...your ancestors' environments and events such as famine can trigger your health on a cellular level:~:~Around here, busy-ness abounds around the holidays

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Hello again!As you've heard by now, it is being reported that researchers have made recent advances in the cloning of human embryos so may we infer that the cloning of a Woolly Mammoth cannot be far behind?Well! What good would the return of such a beast to Earth do for mankind? Unavoidably, this embryo-cloning news puts a bit of performance anxiety upon the ethereal wings of the Odes to a Woolly

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Well, it's hard to resist embedding this video of an ancient spider in 3D yet hopefully scientists have no plan to resusitate such ancient arachnids by cloning their DNA as they do for woolly mammoths! Oh dear. Now the spider poetry muse has landed, web and all...is it feelin' itchy it here to you?Yo! ancient spider in 3Ddon't land upon my arm or kneenor spin a web around my deskyou may be old

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