The Quest To Resurrect The Woolly Mammoth

Meera Dolasia
Wed, 19 Jan 2011 11:26:49 -0800

The lives and eventual extinction of the prehistoric giants that roamed the Earth's surface, thousands of years ago, has always fascinated researchers. However, it is impossible to recreate most of them, either because the fossilized DNA is too old (dinosaurs) or just not available. But the one exception may be the Woolly Mammoth, that lived during the Ice Age, about 8,000 years ago.