May 29
Mammoth With Blood In Carcass May Aid Efforts To Clone Prehistoric Mammal (PHOTOS)
Posted in: Today's ChiliIt was a discovery of mammoth proportions.
On Wednesday, Russian scientists reported that they had extracted blood from a 10,000-year-old woolly mammoth carcass discovered frozen in the Arctic. The researchers estimated that the prehistoric mammal was about 60 when it died, according to a statement issued by North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk.
The mammoth was found in a remote location in the New Siberian Islands in the Arctic Ocean, where temperatures can dip to minus 10 degrees Celsius (about 14 degrees Fahrenheit).
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