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From: Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com>
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Subject: Re: "Texas company raises $200 million to make Jurassic Park happen"
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2025 09:48:51 -0800
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On 1/18/25 09:04, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
> On 1/17/2025 8:17 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>> On 1/17/25 13:45, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>> "Texas company raises $200 million to make Jurassic Park happen"
>>>
>>> https://www.chron.com/life/wildlife/article/colossal-biosciences- 
>>> mammoth-20038093.php
>>>
>>> “Colossal Biosciences wants to resurrect the woolly mammoth, the dodo 
>>> bird, and the Tasmanian tiger.”
>>>
>>> You know, the woolly mammoth was killed off by humans for a good 
>>> reason.   Walking through people's forts and homes is a bad thing.
>>>
>>      Certainly from the POV of the locals who  share time with the
>> Wooly Mammoth it was a reason to get rid of the annoying pests.
>>
> I suspect that the "walking feast!" POV had more to do with it.  (One of 
> our ancestors' hunting methods was 'stampede an entire herd off a cliff' 
> when one mammoth would provide more meat than they could eat before it 
> spoiled.)
> 

	Mammoth Jerky?
	
	But the stampede over a cliff seem more like extermination than
hunting. But who knows what the people of the time were thinking and it
must have been a nuisance to have the walking feast walk right thru
the camp. Forts is surely speculation..
	
	bliss