Russia: Woolly mammoth found with blood in veins boosts chance of cloning beast

Woolly mammoth found with blood in veins boosts chance of cloning beast

THE carcass of a 10,000-year-old woolly mammoth had been found with blood still in its veins - boosting the chances of a Jurassic Park style clone of the beast.

The ancient beast was found in the Novosibirsk archipelago off the northern coast of Siberia.

When stunned researchers from the top Yakutsk University poked the remains with an ice pick incredibly, blood flowed out.

A deal has been signed to give South Korean scientists exclusive rights to clone the mammoth.

Hwang Woo Suk, a stem cell scientist who created the world’s first cloned dog in 2005, said that once the tissues had been treated to a nuclear transfer process, eggs would be implanted into the womb of a live elephant for a 22-month pregnancy.

Semyon Grigoriev, chairman of the university's Museum of Mammoths and head of the expedition, said: "The fragments of muscle tissues, which we've found out of the body, have a natural red colour of fresh meat.

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