Preserved Ice Age Mammoth Found With Flowing Blood In Siberia

Russian scientists have found a well preserved full grown female mammoth in Siberia. Here's the kicker...the creature had flowing blood! While the blood wasn't flowing through the animals body, when they poked it, blood flowed out even though it was 10C degrees below zero. Keep reading to find out more on this story. Could they make me a mammoth please???

From RT:

Scientists say they have managed to find mammoth blood during the excavation of a grown female animal on the Lyakhovsky Islands, the southernmost group of the New Siberian Islands in the Arctic seas of northeastern Russia. 

The dark blood was found in ice cavities below the belly of the animal. When researchers broke the cavities with a poll pick, the blood came flowing out. The fact surprised them because the temperature was 10C below zero.

 

"It can be assumed that the blood of mammoths had some cryo-protective properties,” said Semyon Grigoriev, head of the Museum of Mammoths of the Institute of Applied Ecology of the North at the North Eastern Federal University as cited by Interfax news agency.

 

The blood was placed in a test tube and a bacteriological analysis of the sample is expected soon. 
The muscle tissue of the animal was also well-preserved and had a natural red color of fresh meat, added the scientist. Such preservation can be explained by the fact that the lower part of the mammoth’s body was trapped in pure ice, while the upper part was discovered in the middle of the tundra. The trunk was found separately from the carcass.

 

Three adult mammoth carcasses, including the latest discovery of the Yakut scientists, have been found in the history of paleontology. However, despite such a good state of preservation, the scientists have not yet found enough living cells for cloning the species. Grigoriev noted that the repair of DNA is a very complex process that can take years. 

The latest discovery and its research heralds the possibility of bringing the animal back to life in the future, though there is a lot of controversy around the issue of cloning.

 

What do you think? Should they clone a mammoth and bring them back to life some 4,000 years after they died off?