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Mammoth can be brought back to Earth?
The extinct species, the woolly mammoth, could soon be brought back from the dead.
Mammoths are probably the most potent images of the Pleistocene landscape The woolly mammoth is exceptionally well represented in the fossil record, by tons of bones, tusks and even nearly complete carcasses preserved for thousands of years in the frozen tundra of Siberia and Alaska. The mammoth was 9 feet tall, and covered by a 3and a half-inch layer of fat beneath the skin, as well as a coat of shaggy red hair. ...
The deep-freeze conditions of Siberia are so exceptional that dozens of woolly mammoth specimens were located in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. ... The preservation of some woolly mammoth specimens was so good that their own last meals could be found in their stomachs, and even in the mouth ? ...
One particular mammoth has been dubbed “Zharkov? ... Now, an international scientific team is examining the remains of this adult woolly mammoth, which has been preserved for 23,000 years in the frozen wastes of Siberia. ... This uses a technique that involves impregnating an Indian elephant-its closest genetic relative- with mammoth sperm. Repeating the procedure with its offspring could produce a creature that is 88 percent mammoth from DNA found in its soft tissue. ...
-For National Geographic News
-May 31, 2002
I believe the idea of cloning a mammoth is just a fantasy and only possible in science fiction. ... Therefore, complete DNA has not been found, not even in the best-preserved mammoth ever found; a baby mammoth carcass pulled from a construction site in 1977.
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