Betting on dinosaurs was Re: [extropy-chat] Formulating a bet

[Alfio Puglisi]

On Sun, 27 Mar 2005, David wrote:

>On another note, I think that there are plenty of other
>more recent but still interesting candidates too -
>Australia's extinct megafauna, NZ's moa, the elephant
>bird, the woolly mammoth...

Have the mammoth been sequenced? There are no "freshness" problem like
dinosaurs, since they are preserved in ice and can be eaten by dogs (as it
happened).

It could also be a good test for technologies aimed at recostructing the
damage incurred in freezing - provided that the natural freezing wasn't
too bad to begin with.

Alfio