A mammoth of a blog post
Posted on by Kolbe
Jurassic Park is an awesome movie. That is a fact for a number of reasons, but mainly because dinosaurs walk the earth again. It would be so awesome to have dinosaurs walking the earth again…well, actually, maybe not. They would end up eating us, and that wouldn’t be fun. A wooly mammoth, on the other hand, would be cool. A giant, furry elephant?! Yes please! If you agree with me on that, you’ll be happy to hear that a group of scientists just preformed a necropsy (an autopsy on an animal) on a preserved wooly mammoth. During the procedure, they found blood and tissue samples like none ever found before. Thanks to the amazing preservation of the mammoth, for the first time scientists have the resources to not only learn more than ever before about this species, but in the future they could possibly clone one!!! Ok, I may be getting ahead of myself; there is a lot of scientific witchcraft and wizardry that needs to happen first. Not to mention a lot of ethical and scientific questions to answer as well. Putting all that aside though, seeing a wooly mammoth would be pretty cool I think.