Geneticists Aim to Clone Extinct Woolly Mammoth...

From The Telegraph   |  Roger Highfield   |   December 19, 2005 11:19 PM


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The first serious possibility that the woolly mammoth, or something like it, could walk on Earth again was raised yesterday by an international team of scientists.

Woolly mammoths died out approximately 10,000 years ago

A portion of the genetic code of the mammoth has been reconstructed and, to the surprise of scientists, the team that carried out the feat believes that it will be possible to decode the entire genetic make-up.

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