Mammoth With Blood In Carcass May Aid Efforts To Clone Prehistoric Mammal

It was a discovery of mammoth proportions. On Wednesday, Russian scientists reported that they had extracted blood from a 10,000-year-old woolly mammoth carcass discovered frozen in the Arctic. The researchers estimated that the prehistoric mammal was about 60 when it died, according to a statement issued by North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk.