ANN ARBOR, MI – The nearly-perfect preserved remains of a baby mammoth are being studied at the University of Michigan.
‘Lyuba’ was a one-month old baby mammoth whose remains were discovered in the Russian Arctic in 2007. It appears she died quite suddenly, about 40,000 years ago. “She was doing great, very healthy,” says paleontologist Dan Fisher of the University of Michigan. “She just had this terrible misfortune.”
Scientists believe she either drowned or suffocated in mud next to a lake. The major significance of Lyuba’s existence, however, is that she is the best-preserved mammoth ever discovered. Many partly-intact mammoth corpses have been discovered in Sibera, but nothing as remarkable as Lyuba. Her skin and internal organs are intact, and the only damage found were bite marks from village dogs.
She is so well preserved that traces of mother’s milk have been found in her stomach, along with fecal residue. This was likely also her mother’s, fed to Lyuba to create a healthy microbial community in her gut, which is necessary for proper digestion. Such behavior has already been seen in modern herbivores.
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it wont be fair on the poor animal if it gets cloned, its not like it'l have a happy life, the mammoth would be locked in a cage just for show….it wouldnt take long for the mammoth to become a commercial icon, or if breeding went well, they would be hunted for thier fir… think about it…. how much could you sell a mammoth hair coat for? trillions.
If they do clone it, it should be adopted by some african elephants if theyre so closely related and let nature take its course… otherwise DONT CLONE IT AND TREAT THE ANIMALS THAT ALREADY EXIST WITH RESPECT!!!
Wow, you're so stupid. I guess you don't know how much a trillion dollars actually is.
Pandas are severely endagered, steps are being made to repopulate and encourage thier exsistance… humans owe it to the pandas…. we do owe it to mammoths too, but its simply too late… pands are being released into the wild because there are slowly becoming enough of them…. imagine how long it would take to get enough mammoths ready to be released into the wild? it would take longer than it has to figure out that its possible to clone it! all the money spent on this project could be put to saving endagered animals… pandas, gorrillas, chimps, birds etc
guys bringing something back from the past is a bad idea i know they are amazing animals and everything but they are gone i hate the fact that such beautiful creatures are gone but it would destroy what is supposed to happen the elephants we have now are built for the temp and stuff and also mammoths would need to eat a hell of a lot and with all the cities we dont hav enough plants to feed them and all of the other animals near where it will live. i hate humans for what we have done to the creatures that are now extinct but now we need to focus on keeping the animals we have now before they go too.
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Do it for the sake of science!!! We could learn a lot from this experiment shut the hell up if you think this is "bad" for the animal, it would lead to incomprehensible scientific advancement.