Russian boy discovers woolly mammoth

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Russian boy discovers woolly mammoth

An 11-year-old boy from a nomadic family in Russia's north has stumbled upon a massive well-preserved woolly mammoth, in what scientists describe as the best such discovery since 1901.

Yevgeny Salinder, whose family lives near a polar station in the northern Taimyr Peninsula, discovered the frozen prehistoric animal when he was strolling along the banks of the Yenisei River in late August.

'He sensed an unpleasant odour and saw something sticking out of the ground - it was the mammoth's heels,' said Alexei Tikhonov, director of the Saint Petersburg-based Zoological Museum, who rushed to the tundra after the boy's family notified scientists of the historic find.

Tikhonov said it was the best preserved adult mammoth discovered in more than 100 years.

'So far we can say it is the mammoth of the century,' Tikhonov said.

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[azbob]

This is a mammoth discovery!

 

[Fulcrum29]

From source:

'Its one-metre-long penis is also intact so we can conclude that this was a male,' Tikhonov said, adding it also had one 1.5-metre-long tusk.

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Probably going on auction.

 

[azbob]

From source:

'Its one-metre-long penis is also intact so we can conclude that this was a male,' Tikhonov said, adding it also had one 1.5-metre-long tusk.

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Probably going on auction.

Kim Kardashian will surely be bidding for that if it is.

 

[ponder]

Weren't they gonna clone a mammoth at one stage?

 

[chrisc]

Weren't they gonna clone a mammoth at one stage?

The DNA had deteriorated, so there was a possibility of a dormant foetus

 

[Fulcrum29]

Weren't they gonna clone a mammoth at one stage?

At least if Kim Kardashian could get hold of that penis, she would surely practice the cloning of mammoths to much greater extend.

JOKES ASIDE

Yep, I have read that in Discover Magazine, found a similiar blog article on their website: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/06/06/will-we-ever-clone-a-mammoth/ if remembered correctly they had problems extracting the DNA from the fertile elephant egg, thus they needed thousands and to obtain those results were to mix the DNA with rodents to enhance the process, thus to play with rodents hormone cycles to increase output. Don't know much more...