In the past few years, global warming has melted large swaths of Siberian permafrost, revealing several preserved mammoths, which went extinct about 10,000 years ago. Now, teams from the Sakha Republic mammoth museum and Kinki University in Japan plan to extract DNA from the marrow of one recently discovered mammoth and use it to clone the ancient beast. Click here to read more in The Scientist.
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