DODO MAMMOTH

[averylaterabbit]

Why haven't we made (cloned) dodos and mammoths yet? we have the tissue, come on FOR SCIENCE!

Comments

[ed_fortune]

DNA is quite fragile, and this makes it hard to do. They have tried and failed with the Mammoth

[wulfboy]

Have you not seen the Summer Glau masterpiece Mammoth? Or indeed the movie that takes forever to have dinosaurs in it, Jurassic Park? Now imagine either or both with big-nosed flightless birds doing the terrorizing. And I don't doubt the dodo would terrorize things; that whole "flightless and fat" schtick is not fooling me for a second.

I do hear that the dodo tasted delicious thobut, so who knows what Jamie Oliver might turn his attention to next ...

[averylaterabbit]

Bring it.

"Our children shall eat tonight"

[ed_fortune]

Dodo's tasted foul. It was the reduction of their habitat (for firewood) and the cats and rats we brought with us that did for them.

[averylaterabbit]

I can neither confirm nor deny, I want to TASTE one.

[kathbad]

Have you read Jasper Fforde?