A sample of well preserved blood they found in a carcass of a female mammoth discovered on a remote island in the Arctic Ocean. (AFP/Getty Images)
A sample of well preserved muscle tissue they found in a carcass of a female mammoth discovered on a remote island in the Arctic Ocean. (AFP/Getty Images)
The carcass of a 10,000-year-old woolly mammoth had been found with blood still in its veins – boosting the chances of a Jurassic Park style clone of the beast.
The ancient beast was found in the Novosibirsk archipelago off the northern coast of Siberia.
When stunned researchers from the top Yakutsk University poked the remains with an ice pick incredibly, blood flowed out.
A deal has been signed to give South Korean scientists exclusive rights to clone the mammoth.
Hwang Woo Suk, a stem cell scientist who created the world’s first cloned dog in 2005, said that once the tissues had been treated to a nuclear transfer process, eggs would be implanted into the womb of a live elephant for a 22-month pregnancy.
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