My question,,,can someone please explain the benefits of bringing "to life" an animal of this stature? I'm all for science but I do not see the value in this other than we can,,,kind of like climbing a mountain because it's there,,,
Expedition chief Semyon Grigoryev said Korean scientists with the team had set a goal of finding living cells in the hope of cloning a mammoth. Scientists have previously found bones and fragments but not living cells.
Grigoryev told the online newspaper Vzglyad it would take months of research to determine whether they have indeed found the cells.
"Only after thorough laboratory research will it be known whether these are living cells or not," he said, adding that would take until the end of the year at the earliest.
Mammoth fragments from Siberia raise cloning hopes