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http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/30/world/asia/siberia-mammoth-blood-discovery/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
Will mammoths be brought back to life? Liquid blood find fuels cloning hopes
By Nick Thompson, CNN
updated 6:03 AM EDT, Fri May 31, 2013
...Researchers from the Northeast Federal University in Yakutsk found the 10,000-year-old female mammoth buried in ice on the Lyakhovsky Islands off the coast of northeast Russia.
Scientists say they poked the frozen creature with a pick and dark liquid blood flowed out.
"The fragments of muscle tissues, which we've found out of the body, have a natural red color of fresh meat. The reason for such preservation is that the lower part of the body was underlying in pure ice," said Semyon Grigoriev, the head of the expedition and of the university's Mammoth Museum, in a statement on the university's website....
Will mammoths be brought back to life? Liquid blood find fuels cloning hopes
By Nick Thompson, CNN
updated 6:03 AM EDT, Fri May 31, 2013
...Researchers from the Northeast Federal University in Yakutsk found the 10,000-year-old female mammoth buried in ice on the Lyakhovsky Islands off the coast of northeast Russia.
Scientists say they poked the frozen creature with a pick and dark liquid blood flowed out.
"The fragments of muscle tissues, which we've found out of the body, have a natural red color of fresh meat. The reason for such preservation is that the lower part of the body was underlying in pure ice," said Semyon Grigoriev, the head of the expedition and of the university's Mammoth Museum, in a statement on the university's website....