What is Mammoth ?

Since they subsisted on extremely limited resources, Wrangel Island Mammoths grew to much smaller sizes than their Woolly Mammoth relatives, and are often referred to as dwarf elephants.

Even today, 10,000 years after the last Ice Age, the northern reaches of Canada, Alaska, and Siberia are very, very cold—which helps to explain the amazing number of Woolly Mammoth individuals that have been discovered mummified, near-intact, in solid blocks of ice.

Identifying, isolating and hacking out these giant corpses is the easy part; what's much harder is keeping the remains from disintegrating once they reach room temperature!

Because Woolly Mammoths went extinct relatively recently and were closely related to modern elephants, scientists may be able to harvest the DNA of Mammuthus primigenius and incubate a fetus in a living pachyderm (a process known as "de-extinction").

In fact, a team of researchers recently announced that they have decoded the near-complete genomes of two 40,000-year-old Woolly Mammoth specimens. Unfortunately, this same trick is unlikely to work for dinosaurs, since DNA doesn't preserve well over tens of millions of years.