[chris]

A frozen woolly mammoth calf believed to be Lyuba was found on the Yamal Peninsula in Russia in May 2007. She had died about 42,000 years earlier and was preserved in permafrost. Estimates of her age at death have varied from roughly one month to six months. She measured about 85 centimeters high and weighed about 50 kilograms.

The calf was later taken to Tokyo for CT scanning and was presented at a press conference on January 4, 2008. She is now held by the Shemanovsky Museum in Salekhard. The photograph shows the intact, hairless, gray-brown calf lying on her side in an open wooden crate on a cardboard base. No attempt was made to clone Lyuba, and she did not die during an experiment.

[the hated]

i wonder why and how it died... i thought that science had the cloning things sorted ?

[chris]

This may have been an early attempt, there was no date with it =(

[güttsfükk]

I wonder if this is the mammoth they were trying to clone from the frozen specimen that was found in the ice in siberia few years back

[jjacks1327]

yeah, this IS the baby mammoth they found

[Kehko]

what i heard (years back) was they were going to use frozen sperm from a mammoth they found and impregnate an elephant with it?

Originally Posted by the hated ↗

i wonder why and how it died... i thought that science had the cloning things sorted ?

You have to have the species' genome totally mapped out to clone it. It's different for each animal.

[Sharon]

Didn't do a good job, apart from dying, he also has no woolly coat. Looks like a regular dead baby elephant that's quite mummified.

[Rage]

i don't get it how do they do it? gash sience can really get me on my nervs like how does a graphic telly works but this is just insane cloning. Shit i've wroten to much crap now

[thingermejig]

What a mammoth tusk.. it would have taken!

[firedog25]

I'm pretty sure that's the pic of the original mammoth baby they were/are using to clone. As I remember it was extraordinarily preserved.