Это видео недоступно.
Сожалеем об этом.

First complete woolly mammoth genome found in freeze-dried "jerky" | New Scientist Weekly Ep 258

Поделиться
HTML-код
  • Опубликовано: 16 авг 2024
  • Fancy a bite of woolly mammoth jerky? A beef-jerky-like fossil of this prehistoric creature has been discovered - a metre-long piece of skin still covered in hair. And the most amazing thing is that the entire genome has remained intact, giving more insight into these creatures than ever before. Could this help bring woolly mammoths back to life?
    There is a way to make butter not from cows, not from vegetable oils or even microbes, but from pure carbon. And if you want a climate friendly way of producing a delicious spreadable fat, this may just be it. A company called Savor is using a process that can convert captured CO2 or natural gas into fatty acids.
    The origin of life is a huge scientific mystery: how can something so complex emerge from inert and random molecules? Well, Google has created a simulation to figure this out. The company has used computer code to recreate the random ‘primordial soup’ of early Earth, with results that might baffle you.
    When mammals breastfeed, calcium is stripped from their bones to make the milk, but their bones don’t get significantly weaker. How does that work? Well, a new, bone-strengthening hormone found in mice may have finally solved the long-standing mystery - and could benefit human health.
    Plus: How our pupils change size with every breath; how cosmic rays could help protect financial markets; and how ancient Denisovan DNA may have helped the people of Papua New Guinea adapt to their environment.
    Hosts Timothy Revell and Christie Taylor discuss with guests Corryn Wetzel, Madeleine Cuff, Matthew Sparkes and Grace Wade.
    To read more about these stories, visit newscientist.com.
    -
    Learn more ➤ newscientist.c...
    Subscribe ➤ bit.ly/NSYTSUBS
    Get more from New Scientist:
    Official website: bit.ly/NSYTHP
    Facebook: bit.ly/NSYTFB
    Twitter: bit.ly/NSYTTW
    Instagram: bit.ly/NSYTINSTA
    LinkedIn: bit.ly/NSYTLIN
    About New Scientist:
    New Scientist was founded in 1956 for “all those interested in scientific discovery and its social consequences”. Today our website, videos, newsletters, app, podcast and print magazine cover the world’s most important, exciting and entertaining science news as well as asking the big-picture questions about life, the universe, and what it means to be human.
    New Scientist
    www.newscienti...

Комментарии • 29

  • @DogFoxHybrid
    @DogFoxHybrid Месяц назад +7

    The mammoth was an archeological find? Unless humans butchered it, you're talking about paleontology.

  • @Davywatson121
    @Davywatson121 Месяц назад +10

    Bring back mammoths in time for the melting of the last glacier? Elephants have a culture, including teaching the young where to find seasonal water and food. Which foster mother is going to teach this baby mammoth to be a mammoth? 😢

    • @Erime
      @Erime Месяц назад +1

      🤔 sounds a bit woolly to me

    • @NeilEvans-xq8ik
      @NeilEvans-xq8ik Месяц назад

      We could teach their community to eventually teach each other.

    • @cacogenicist
      @cacogenicist Месяц назад +2

      One of the ideas is that mammoth-ized elephants would knock over trees and dig up the ground -- such that the cold would penetrate deeper. In principle, at scale, cold weather elephants could help reduce the loss of permafrost. Bison and other megafauna are not nearly as useful for this; they don't knock trees over, for example.

  • @alphalunamare
    @alphalunamare Месяц назад +4

    the commentary is so so so childish.

  • @thegroove2000
    @thegroove2000 Месяц назад +2

    Manipulating whats already there. Now what could be behind this all? A mysterious mover?

  • @flyingfox707b
    @flyingfox707b Месяц назад +1

    0:49 Paleontological or Biological, not archaeological, in this context.

  • @bjdefilippo447
    @bjdefilippo447 Месяц назад

    Thanks for the interesting info. In case you're curious, the plastic tip on a shoelace is called an aglet. (Thanks, Phineas & Ferb!)

    • @FlubberFrosch
      @FlubberFrosch 11 дней назад

      Or Pinke in German. (also thanks, Phineas & Ferb)

  • @cacogenicist
    @cacogenicist Месяц назад +2

    _What does this have to do with mammals!?_ is quite a dumb response to reaearch exploring the foundations of abiogenesis.
    Smarter commentary, please.

  • @thomasbell7033
    @thomasbell7033 Месяц назад +2

    Picking a few news briefs from a longer list of news.briefs does not make them "curated." I should think NS, of all institutions, would leave dumb marketing-speak alone.

  • @user-md9yv7jx2c
    @user-md9yv7jx2c Месяц назад

    Soylent Green is people.

  • @jshellenberger7876
    @jshellenberger7876 Месяц назад

    The Conway game of life.
    Arkansas hwy 65.
    Thailand Highway to Korat.
    Same copycat.
    #POW

  • @princessaja2557
    @princessaja2557 Месяц назад +2

    How they know it was natural considering it was just a skin that was dry.

    • @cacogenicist
      @cacogenicist Месяц назад

      What are you suggesting exactly?

  • @TheMemesofDestruction
    @TheMemesofDestruction Месяц назад +1

    Was it tasty? 🤔

    • @markmonaghan2309
      @markmonaghan2309 Месяц назад

      Not that interested in the jerky I'll wait for the burgers

    • @FlubberFrosch
      @FlubberFrosch 11 дней назад

      The team of researchers preparing the steppe wisent mummy, known as Blue Babe, for display stewed a piece of its neck to celebrate.

    • @TheMemesofDestruction
      @TheMemesofDestruction 11 дней назад

      @@FlubberFrosch Yummy?

  • @Rene-uz3eb
    @Rene-uz3eb Месяц назад +1

    So we're going to see mammoths nice. I guess we could even breed mini dinosaurs, given that they could not grow as big in today's gravity.

    • @cacogenicist
      @cacogenicist Месяц назад +3

      If this was a Ken M-style troll, _nice._
      But if you're serious, of course Earth's gravity has not changed to any remotely significant degree since dinosaurs walked the Earth.
      I'm inclined to give you the benefit of the doubt.

    • @Rene-uz3eb
      @Rene-uz3eb Месяц назад

      You inclined wrong. Now that I think about it, it kind of seems nonsensical for a static planet to have plate tectonics. Why would there be moving plates? Whereas, if you imagine the planet was expanding (with some hollow shells somewhere), that would very well account for plate tectonics. Volcanic activity could be seen as evidence for an expanding planet.

    • @jesuschristt7692
      @jesuschristt7692 29 дней назад +1

      @@Rene-uz3ebok,even if the planet was expanding ( which is not the case),the only thing that would change is the volume,not the mass.
      Otherwise you should explain where and how the new mass Is generated

    • @Rene-uz3eb
      @Rene-uz3eb 29 дней назад

      @@jesuschristt7692 you got me I'm also assuming gravity is not only a function of mass

  • @selakery3297
    @selakery3297 Месяц назад +2

    Wooly mammoths went extinct mostly due to global climate change and we're going to bring them back to go through global climate change again. Brilliant!! 🙄🙄🙄

    • @cacogenicist
      @cacogenicist Месяц назад

      Note that mammoths persisted the longest where there were no humans. Be skeptical of climate as a complete explanation for megafauna extinction.
      E.g., climate change absolutely can not explain the demise of the Columbian mammoth -- which ranged from near Mexico City to Florida, and to all of California, eastern Oregon, and over to Montana, and through Illinois to the East Coast south of Washington DC.
      So they were capable of making a living in a very wide range of habitats. Climate change should not have wiped them out. ... human presence in the Americas (probably starting about 25k years ago) almost certainly played a major role. And new research supports my assertion.
      As for mammoth-ized elephants possibly being introduced to Siberia -- one of the ideas is that they will bust up the ground and knock over trees that are moving north, which will help preserve permafrost by allowing the cold to penetrate into the ground more deeply -- we don't want melting permafrost to contribute to warming.

  • @Tubemanjac
    @Tubemanjac Месяц назад +1

    The intact piece of skin probably got frozen within one natural day as a result of the huge, worldwide cataclysm appr. 20k+ years ago. It's described in the book The Adam and Eve Story - The Story of Cataclysms by Chan Thomas (1965) which has been classified for decades.

    • @cacogenicist
      @cacogenicist Месяц назад +3

      Trolling or smooth-brained? -- so hard to tell these days.