Wooly Mammoth Carcass With Liquid Blood Found

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**Dreadclaw69**

http://news.yahoo.com/russians-mammoth-carcass-liquid-blood-184322259.html

MOSCOW (AP) — A perfectly preserved woolly mammoth carcass with liquid blood has been found on a remote Arctic island, fueling hopes of cloning the Ice Age animal, Russian scientists said Thursday.
The carcass was in such good shape because its lower part was stuck in pure ice, said Semyon Grigoryev, the head of the Mammoth Museum, who led the expedition into the Lyakhovsky Islands off the Siberian coast.
"The blood is very dark, it was found in ice cavities bellow the belly and when we broke these cavities with a poll pick, the blood came running out," he said in a statement released by the North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk, which sent the team.
Wooly mammoths are thought to have died out around 10,000 years ago, although scientists think small groups of them lived longer in Alaska and on islands off Siberia.
Scientists have deciphered much of the woolly mammoth's genetic code from their hair, and some believe it's possible to clone them if living cells are found
Grigoryev said the find could provide the necessary material. The blood of mammoths appeared not to freeze in extreme temperatures, likely keeping mammoths warm, he said.
The temperature at the time of excavation was -7 to - 10 degrees Celsius (14 to 19 degrees Fahrenheit.)
The researchers collected the samples of the animal's blood in tubes with a special preservative agent. They were sent to Yakutsk for bacterial examination in order to spot potentially dangerous infections.
The carcass' muscle tissue was also in perfect condition.
"The fragments of muscle tissues, which we've found out of the body, have a natural red color of fresh meat," Grigoryev said.
Up to 4 meters (13 feet) in height and 10 tons in weight, mammoths roamed across huge areas between Great Britain and North America and were driven to extinction by humans and the changing climate.

**djones520**

Did no one watch Jurassic Park?

We don't want to open Pandora's box here. Listen to the wise words of Ian Malcolm people!

**Sigvatr**

That's a lot of fish.

So...does that mean we will have cuddly Mammoths soon? :O

**Dreadclaw69**

Hehe

Funny enough Jurassic Park was my first thought too

**Snrub**

Mammoth steak here i come.

**azazel the cat**

I'm somewhat surprised that Putin didn't find the mammoth himself.

**Dreadclaw69**

No but he probably killed it bare handed

**Jihadin**

He actually traveled back in time to do it

**Hlaine Larkin mk2**

Putin does not discuss his epic time travel adventures for the fear that he is mistaken for a racist Doctor

**Fafnir**

You guys got it all wrong. Putin just squeezed the mammoth fossil until the blood came out. He always has a glass of mammoth blood with his breakfasts. He just decided to share it with us for once.

**Jihadin**

Not what I heard.....heard he changes water to Mammoth blood first thing in the morning.......

**Maddok_Death**

So taking that blood to check for dangerous diseases, sounds like the long awaited Zombie Virus Outbreak I've been waiting for!

**Ouze**

Yes, yes. Ooooh - ahhh - that's how it always starts.

Then comes the running, and the screaming.

**Shadowbrand**

I read into it further when I saw this in my news feed. Apparently we could probably recreate a lot of extinct species.

Just a matter of if its the right thing to do.

**Selym**

Shadowbrand wrote:
I read into it further when I saw this in my news feed. Apparently we could probably recreate a lot of extinct species.

Just a matter of if its the right thing to do.

My stomach says yes, anti-resurrectionists say no...

I'll vote for bringing back mammoths.

**Shadowbrand**

-Shrug-

I'm for it. We just need to be smart about it and not shut off the electric fences for the Jurassic theme park.

**Dreadclaw69**

Ouze wrote:
Yes, yes. Ooooh - ahhh - that's how it always starts.

Then comes the running, and the screaming.

You mean you think that bringing back a long extinct animal into a dynamic eco-system, where it is unlikely to have a natural predator, and will compete with others for resources is a problem?

**Hordini**

Dreadclaw69 wrote:
Ouze wrote:
Yes, yes. Ooooh - ahhh - that's how it always starts.

Then comes the running, and the screaming.

You mean you think that bringing back a long extinct animal into a dynamic eco-system, where it is unlikely to have a natural predator, and will compete with others for resources is a problem?

You can solve the natural predator problem by offering mammoth hunting safaris at top dollar. You could probably fund the whole project that way.

**Dreadclaw69**

Hordini wrote:
You can solve the natural predator problem by offering mammoth hunting safaris at top dollar. You could probably fund the whole project that way.

I can imagine the PETA protests now

**chromedog**

Use PETA as your beaters.

If you accidentally lose some due to stray fire ... *shrugs*