Cloneable Mammoth Cells Discovered in Russia

orthogonal writes "Animal Planet reports, in this article, that 'Russian scientists said Wednesday that they've found living cells in a frozen ice-age mammoth' which could be cloned, and gestated in an elephant. I see a new Republican mascot in this."

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Tourism Dollars

[Radical Rad]

The Japanese researcher hopes that the resurrected mammoths will live in a sanctuary in an uninhabited area north of the remote, frozen Kamchatka peninsula in Russia's Far East, where present conditions resemble their original habitat.

I'll bet Russia could really use the eco-tourism money that this would generate. I wouldn't mind a vacation package to see these things up close.