After a well preserved Buy Fifa 14 Coins mammoth thigh bone was found in Siberiathis summer, a joint research group from Japan and Russia has madeplans to start cloning the long-extinct mammal from next year,Japan's Kyodo News has reported.
The gigantic leg bone was discovered in permafrost soil inSiberia this August. Kyodo News' report suggests thatcmate change has led to frozen ground in eastern Russia thawingout, potentially heralding a coming boom in mammothdiscoveries.
The thigh bone is special because it contains bone marrow thathas been preserved in the ice. The nuclei of the marrow cells couldpotentially be extracted and put inside egg cells from an elephant-- which are close genetic cousins of the mammoth -- to createembryos with mammoth DNA.