Cloning a Long-extinct Woolly Mammoth Might Become Reality

Last year, in the snowy parts of Siberia, a beautifully preserved woolly mammoth carcass was found. Scientists were even able to collect blood samples from the specimen, making it possible to recreate the mammoth by using DNA found in the recovered blood cells. That’s the reason scientists now have high hopes that a clone of the mammoth could be a real possibility if they were to map its specific traits – like its tusks and hair – onto a live elephant genome. If this long-awaited dream came true, it’s up to the researchers at the South Korean biotech company SOOAM, who are now testing the carcass for a complete set of DNA. Only if the mammoth’s DNA turned out to be complete, could the scientists clone it...more

Hey Denny Gentry, I foresee a new team roping event.  Probably would have to rope off of a cross between Clydesdales and Percherons.  Could Priefert make a ropin' chute that big?  Who knows, they might buck too.  Talk about a return to the "wild and wooly" days, this would do it.