MOSCOW (AP) -- A perfectly preserved woolly mammoth carcass with liquid blood has been found on a remote Arctic island, fueling hopes of cloning the Ice Age animal, Russian scientists said Thursday.The carcass was in such good shape because its lower part was stuck in pure ice, said Semyon Grigoryev, the head of the Mammoth Museum, who led the expedition into the Lyakhovsky Islands off the Siberian coast.
"The blood is very dark, it was found in ice cavities bellow the belly and when we broke these cavities with a poll pick, the blood came running out," he said in a statement released by the North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk, which sent the team.
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Everything happens for a reason,but scientists can't accept that.They think that some sort of natural event occurred,causing creatures like this to perish.It was by definition a natural event,but certainly not random.These animals had run their course and their course ended at least 10,000 years ago.Clearly this species had become obsolete.I've had a love affair with 60's muscle cars for most of my life,but their time was over when gas hit $4 a gallon.
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