CANADA: The woolly mammoths roaming the Earth could soon be a reality as scientists have been trying to clone mammoths after discovering well preserved, frozen remains of the ancient beast in permafrost off the coast of Siberia in Russia. According to researchers, the skin of the animal is still amazingly intact.
Recently, the Northern Oikumena research expedition of North-eastern Federal University under the Project Mammoth Revival found a total of six mammoth carcasses on the Lyakhovsky Islands in Russia. These carcasses are believed to be at least 10,000 year old. The team also discovered the tusk of a pygmy mammoth – a dwarf elephant species that has now got extinct.
The Project Mammoth Revival is a Russian-funded research venture aiming to clone the ancient creature. Russian scientists have plans to combine living cells from wooly mammoth remains with the egg from an Asian elephant, and have been working with South Korean cloning experts to revive the extinct creature. However, scientists are yet to get success in finding a high-quality ‘living’ cells from wooly mammoth remains.
Researchers from the North-Eastern Federal University have also signed an agreement with the Beijing Genomics Institute and Sooam Biotech Research Foundation in South Korea for the woolly mammoth cloning project. According to the Siberian Times, the project will be headed by Semyon Grigoryev for whom the newly found skins are project’s best bet for finding living cells for cloning.
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