Wooly mammoth discovered in Russia

scientists and researchers have discovered a female wooly mammoth carcass in russia which they claim to have found well preserved muscle tissiue on parts of the mammoth. Unfortunately the blood subsance that they have taken from the muscle wont bring us any closer to cloning the mammoth, really blood is only a start. like other mammoths that have been found previously, the estimated 10,000 year old female  recently found among Russia's Novosibirsk Islands has kept intact all these years in the northern freeze. but its not just the mammoth discovery thats making headlines, its the peculiar liquid found around the carcass has also been making headlines.

Semyon Grigoriev of North-eastern federal university is the mammoth expert who lead the expedidtion to find the mammoth has said that he thinks the fluid around her carcass may be blood containing viable blood cells which is bringing us closer than we have ever been before to bringing back the mammoth, but we are still a long way off. no scientists can really tell what the red fluid is underneath the mammoth but if it is intact cells that can be salvaged for resarch then we would have overcome the first hurdle of cloning in the 21st century. Beth shapiro ( an ancient DNA expert at the university in california, santa cruz ) says that she is " super excited " about the discovery of the female mammoth but she also added "I don't think it's impossible that there is some blood in such a well-preserved find." but later on in the interview, despite the chances of there being intact cells she says "I strongly, strongly suspect that there will be zero intact cells in the find, regardless of whether blood is preserved." The focus on the cloning of the mammoth has distracted everyone and the press about all the useful information that the discovery is bringing science, we can start to piece together how they lived, and have accurate artists impressions to put in the history books.