As A Kid,

the natural History Museum,

was almost a second home, I took the bus almost every day during school holidays to visit it in South Kensington, apart from the huge dinosaur in the main entrance hall I was always looking to the right as you entered to the skeleton of a huge mammoth, also the cast of a small one that was found frozen in ice, over the years many such finds have been made as scientist hunt the frozen tundra, but this find appears to be unique, 


the find was made on the New Siberian Islands - or Novosibirsk Islands, off the coast of the Republic of Sakha, teeth of the creature suggest it was between 50 and 60 years old, well preserved muscle tissue was also found, but this is the big find, samples of blood had dripped into the ice beneath the the hulk and were frozen for thousands of years,


this opens the old question that has divided the scientific world, on whether scientists should try to recreate the species using DNA, well it appears cloning might go ahead, last year a deal was signed giving South Korean scientists exclusive rights on cloning the woolly mammoth from certain tissue samples found in the Siberian permafrost,


stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk's private bioengineering laboratory confirmed he is poised to make a bid to return the extinct Siberian mammoth to the planet, once the tissues have been treated to a nuclear transfer process, the eggs will be implanted into the womb of a live elephant for a 22-month pregnancy, maybe Jurassic Park is not now so far away?