Perfectly preserved 'living' woolly mammoth cells found in Siberia raises hopes the extinct animal could be cloned

Perfectly preserved 'living' woolly mammoth cells found in Siberia raises hopes the extinct animal could be cloned | Mail Online: "Perfectly preserved cells from a woolly mammoth have been found in Siberia, bringing closer the prospect of a cloned comeback for the iconic tusked creature.



An international team of researchers discovered the unique material in a permafrost mammoth graveyard in remote Yakutia, in the east of Russia.

The find last month includes 'soft, fatty tissue, hair, bone marrow of the mammoth', said the Semyon Grigoryev, Director of the Mammoth Museum at the North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk, who led the expedition."