Researchers attempting to clone a mammoth by 2017
Woolly mammoths in a late Pleistocene landscape in northern Spain (Image: Mauricio Anton via PLoS Biology)
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The last known mammoth lived around 4500 years ago, but if scientists in Japan are successful then we might be able to meet one soon! Research to resurrect these awesome creatures was shelved when cell nuclei taken from a sample from Siberia were found to be too badly damaged, however a scientific breakthrough in Kobe successfully cloned a mouse from 16 year old deep frozen tissue, and the research began again in earnest...
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