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[yanpa]

Woolly mammoth arrives in Japan from Russia

A 39,000-year-old frozen woolly mammoth is unpacked on Tuesday in Yokohama, Japan, where it is to be exhibited. The mammoth, nicknamed Yuka, was discovered three years ago with relatively intact body and fur in Russia's Sakha Republic. She is believed to have died when she was 10 years old. Woolly mammoths became extinct around 4,000 years ago

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[Screwed-down Hairdo]

I'm pretty sure some of the blokes I used to work with hunted that mammoth...

[yanpa]

Figuratively or literally?

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Figuratively or literally?

I literally haven't been able to figure that one out yet....

[matsuki]

Japanese PR at work..."naked 10yo named Yuka on display."

I still don't understand the whole clone/resurrection thing going on with the mammoths. Before it was "Japanese cloning" and lately it seems "Korean cloning" at this and haven't both sides been slammed for faking results?

[yanpa]

Figuratively or literally?

I literally haven't been able to figure that one out yet....

In this wide and varied linguistic world, it wouldn't surprise me if the phrase "to hunt a woolly mammoth" has more than one meaning. Fnarr fnarr.

[matsuki]

I knew something was off when I flew back yesterday....first time I've ever seen the grass at Narita green! ....then I proceeded to run over a lemur with my cart, loaded with 150kg of luggage, right out of customs and realized nothing has changed...right in front of escalators, stairwells, and exits are great places to dash in front of people and suddenly stop in confusion. If I had a little more momentum, I would have been on the news.

[Russell]

That lemur was luckier than this woman.

BTW, don't ask me why they used a robot to read the news to you...

[matsuki]

That lemur was luckier than this woman.

BTW, don't ask me why they used a robot to read the news to you...

Yep...but my cart probably weighed more. Seriously could have been bad. (and I looked like the asshole to anyone who didn't see her cut me off and stop)