A team of researchers sequenced the gene to produce wooly mammoth hemoglobin.
Then they inserted the gene into bacteria which grew it— and it has anti-freeze properties. Let’s hope dinosaur urine cures cancer and that can be the science story of 2010 instead of ongoing ecological devastation.
(By the way— regarding the Gulf disaster— I really hope it stops increasing exponentially soon. 5k a day— 20k— 200k gallons a day according to this article! I think that’s about 3/10ths of an Olympic size swimming pool. But I also noticed the estimate of total discharge in that article was 1.6 million— almost an order of magnitude less than the estimate I read in another article today.
That’s about 4.2 million gallons then— six Olympic size swimming pools. See if you can find Sam and I getting married for scale.)
Sam and Devin dot com 
what a bizarre article – do you have an extremely short attention span or something, that you have to jump from topic to topic having nothing to do with one another from one sentence to the next?
Just so everyone else knows this hilarious detail, this Anonymous Internet Coward’s IP address leads back to the University of Manitoba- which did the mammoth study- which means his whining about multiple topics is probably more accurately whining that the post didn’t stay on HIS topic. But, hey- way to disprove the stereotype about polite Canadians!
[…] Hmm. “Highest yet to surface” and “higher worst-case scenario than previously reported” in the paragraph above that. Yet— I could swear I’ve seen that number somewhere before… […]