Have we not learned anything from Jurassic Park? A team of Japanese scientists is attempting to bring back the long-extinct wooly mammoth. The animal has been extinct for nearly 4,000 years but the scientists have managed to extract the cells of a 28,000-year-old mammoth and transplant them into a mouse. The cells “showed signs of life” during the experiment.

The cells were taken from a mammoth that scientists call “Yuka”, who would have been seven at the time of her death. Her carcass was in pretty good shape when she was found in the permafrost of Siberia in 2010.

So, how soon ’til we start seeing these hairy beasts in our woods? It could be quite a while. While the cells “took” to the mouse’s eggs, the cells didn’t divide to create anything like a fetus. But, it did prove to the scientists that they could “reawaken cells” from long-extinct animals.

Source: https://www.thevintagenews.com/2019/03/16/yuka/