10,000 year old mammoth carcass found

What a find! Thanks for sharing that, morticia. It's incredible something that has been dead so long is so well preserved.

Cute little girl, or was it a boy?

saw this today. I hope they find some intact and usable DNA

Hoof started the puns?! Because I aint goina stop

Elenos, you have officially the most active imagination of any human I have encountered..! You should try your hand at poetry

Originally posted by SearchAndDestroy Think they will be able to extract DNA from this one? The last one they tried for cloning purposes had DNA that was to damaged. This one being so well preserved, you can only hope!

According to this article, Tikhonov (the Deputy Director of the Russian Academy of Science's Zoological Institute, says the following regarding the cloning process of this specimen:

�There were suggestions that the baby mammoth could be cloned and be used to breed a live mammoth. Tikhonov dismissed these ideas because, cloning can only take place if whole cells are still intact, but since the mammoth was found in permafrost, the freezing would have caused the cells to burst."

Tikhonov said, "Such a unique skin condition protects all the internal organs from modern microbes and micro-organisms ... In terms of its future genetic, molecular and microbiological studies, this is just an unprecedented specimen."

Here's the article: http://kaylascott.newsvine.com/_news/2007/07/11/831104-baby-mammoth-found-in-siberia

Here's a closer view of the baby mammoth, who is a female (ahem) and presumed to have died about the age of six months - and well preserved in permafrost.

We had a lttle baby mammoth
Called Lyuba
Who wandered wild and free
Who could ever tell?
How one day her sweet name 
Would be written down
In paleontological history

Now poor little Lyuba
And the species of her mom
Went extinct out in ice country
What a permafrost tragedy!
But the come the day
When her DNA  
May clone again and
Rise up to speak to me.

Edited by elenos - 13-Jul-2007 at 22:01

Well done elenos

Ir's possible I suppose, particularly for the early people who co-habitated with them, for instance the eskimos and their occassional diet of whales. Our good old mother earth has suffered more than enough at our hands.