When I was a kid I always thought it would be awesome to walk with dinosaurs.  Even now the idea of actually observing, interacting and possibly taming my own dinosaur makes me smile and chuckle.  Science has come a long way since I was a kid.  When movies like Jurassic Park came out the concept of taking previously preserved DNA from something 10,000 years old was only a gleam in someone’s eye – but now we think we can do it.

Below I linked an article to news article on northwestohio.com, the article is about scientists who are going to try and clone a mammoth.  You read that correctly, a mammoth.

http://www.northwestohio.com/news/story.aspx?id=693849

“The researchers plan to produce embryos with mammoth DNA by replacing the nuclei of egg cells from an elephant with those taken from the mammoth’s marrow cells..”

While I am excited about the leaps and bounds our knowledge and science has come in my lifetime I am apprehnsive about cloning a mammal that has not been in our ecosystem for over 10,000 years.