I can has new lease of life?

From the BBC news website


"Russian scientists to attempt clone of woolly mammoth:

Scientists from Russia and Japan are undertaking a Jurassic Park-style experiment in an effort to bring the woolly mammoth out of extinction.

The scientists claim that a thigh bone found in August contains remarkably well-preserved marrow cells, which could form the starting point of the experiment.

The team claim that the cloning could be complete within the next five years."




Oh please let it be so. Think of the potential for lolmammothz...

Mezhirich, or what you can do with a lolmammoth when they irritate you too much...

Back to basics

Today's post comes courtesy of Robyn Inglis. Apparently you do actually need to have submitted your PhD in order to come up with amusing lolmammothz.

Lolcat/Megafaunal splice

This week, we take Lolmammothz in a new direction. The fundamental problem with creating new lolmammothz is that their creator is not really au fait with lolcat parlance: in the absence of standardised lolcat tropes (well, apart from that fluffy juvenile animal + illiteracy = amusement (apparently)), it's actually quite hard to generate a lolcat without a lolcat, if you see what I mean - the cat actually turns out to be the limiting factor.

So. We're going to try something new. I take a randomly generated lolcat from the interweb, and then I reconstruct it with the aid of a helpful megafauna. Today we're showcasing Dinotherium, also known as the terrible beast or hoetusker(no jokes please), the third largest land mammal ever to have existed, with an estimated weight of between five and ten metric tonnes, with a height of 3.5-4.5 metres. That's quite big. Their range covered Asia, Africa, and Europe. And that's just when they sat down (bah-dum-dum-tish!). Very sadly, they became extinct between 4-2 mya. According to a Nature article I once read, much debate surrounds the functionality of their downward-curving tusks, but I am happy to be able to clear this up once and for all by confirming that the tusk was actually used to go through your underwear.

So. Lolcat.

Lolcat courtesy of blog.totalvid.com



Lolmammoth (or rather, Loldinotherium)

What do you think, does it work? Positive feedback only, or you might just find a Dinotherium in your underwear drawer.

Anorexic Lolmammoth

Abusive Megafauna

The World Wildlife Fund apparently classes the Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) as 'charismatic megafauna'. I would argue that all megafauna are charismatic (what's not to like? Although as a character in one of my favourite books notes, big versions of extra-small versions of very big versions of normal-sized things are best of all, hence the concept of a "giant baby giant panda" (Pamela Brown, The Swish of the Curtain). 


However, this particular megafauna is anything but charismatic. He is very funny though - when excavating in Morocco last year, these ads on TV used to make us roll round the floor laughing. Incidentally, the product in question is absolutely and comprehensively vile.

On Cave of Forgotten Dreams

Only Werner Herzog could make a film ostensibly about Palaeolithic art and end it with a commentary on mutant albino crocodiles.