Scientists to World: We're Going to Finally Clone that Woolly Mammoth We've Been Talking About
We're Going to Make One of These Mauricio Antón via Wikimedia It's long been something of a holy grail for those bent on the idea of recreating species lost to the Earth through extinction, and now the Russians and Japanese are actually planning to do it--we're going to clone a woolly mammoth, you guys. That's right. Using intact bone marrow recovered from the thigh bone of a woolly mammoth found in the thawing permafrost of Siberia, researchers think they will likely clone a living, breathing mammoth in just five years. (Whether we believe them is a different matter entirely.) A joint research project launching next year between Russia's Sakha Republic Mammoth Museum and Japan's Kinki University aims to resurrect the woolly mammoth, which has been extinct for roughly 10,000 years. Why? Why not? It's long been thought that if you swap the nuclei of elephant egg cells with the mammoth cell...