By Vladimir Isachenkov, AP, May 30, 2013
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.
Woolly mammoths are thought to have died out around 10,000 years ago, although scientists think small groups of them lived longer in Alaska and on islands off Siberia. Up to 4 meters (13 feet) in height and 10 tons in weight, mammoths roamed across huge areas between Great Britain and North America.
Dennis: Some scientist believe that the woolly mammoth died during the brief 700 year Ice Age after Noah's Flood from about 2,350-1,600 BC. The fact that liquid blood was found in the mammoth makes more sense with a shorter time span than with a longer one. Similarly some years ago scientist found blood tissue in an non-fossilized Tyrannous Rex bone supposedly 65 million years old. The evidence found fits better with the Young Earth idea than the Old Earth idea. See link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5jNFLiPaGY
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