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South Korean Scientists Prepare To Clone Wooly Mammoth
An anonymous reader writes "Last year Russian researchers discovered a well-preserved mammoth thigh bone and announced plans to clone a mammoth from the bone marrow within — and they just signed a deal with South Korea's Sooam Biotech Research Foundation to bring the project to fruition. The Sooam scientists plan to implant the nucleus of a woolly mammoth cell into an elephant egg in order to to create a mammoth embryo, which would then be placed in an elephant womb. 'This will be a really tough job,' Soaam reasearcher Hwang In-Sung said, 'but we believe it is possible because our institute is good at cloning animals.'" Not to be confused with a similar mammoth effort at mammoth-cloning at Kyoto University.
Some Russians and their Siberian huskies already know the answer to that one. There's been a few thawed out over the last century, and one turned into a lot of dog food since the only thing that could really be preserved in a warmer climate long term was the skeleton.
And even the Russians who sometimes enjoy a piece of slightly rotting meat
Um, what? I'm a Russian, and I most certainly don't enjoy rotten meat, regardless of "slightly" and "sometimes".
STFU, you pompous windbag.