‘Can you clone that?’ Putin has close encounter with mammoth Dima in Russia’s Far East
By Russia Today,
Russia Today
| 09. 01. 2014
Upon meeting a 28,000-year-old mammoth mummy in a museum in the Russian Far East, Russian President Vladimir Putin wondered if the preserved soft tissues of the ancient animal could help clone it. The museum’s employees assured the president that they are closely collaborating with South Korean scientists on that research area.
The mammoth museum in Russia’s Yakutia is a unique place, hosting the rarest findings of the ancient animals’ remains discovered over the last decade.
But the main treasure of the museum is the so-called Mamolyakhovsky mammoth, which was found along the Kolyma River shores in 1977. The 28,000-year-old discovery is not only a full skeleton of a baby mammoth (which means over 75 percent of bones belong to the same animal), but also boasts soft tissues and even liquid blood preserved in the animal’s mummy.
The mammoth was about seven or eight months old when it died, and the scientists named him Dima.
Upon seeing Dima on Monday, President Putin, who arrived in Yakutsk to participate in a meeting on regional development, became very interested in whether the mammoth’s...
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