The most interesting part of that article is the non-chalant last line: "Once the [wooly mammoth's] tissues have been treated to a nuclear transfer process, the eggs will be implanted into the womb of a live elephant for a 22-month pregnancy."<p>Cloning wooly mammoths! Now that is cool.
I'm a little but confused by the nature of how further research/experimentation will proceed. Namely why the <i>rights</i> to clone were <i>sold</i> after the discovery.<p>Presumably, given how radical this discovery is, the opportunity to clone an extinct species would be given to the most capable scientific institution on the planet, not for the highest bidder... Maybe the South Koreans qualify as the most capable, I don't really know. Or perhaps my vision of the international science community is just naive.
I'm not sure if this is fair, but it strikes me as somewhat slapdash to take a sample right there in the field.
Also, while there is red liquid, what's the chances it contains actual viable DNA, rather than what amount to DNA fragments and a bit of haemoglobin?
Audio of Stewart Brand's recent Long Now Foundation talk about reviving extinct species:<p><a href="http://longnow.org/seminars/02013/may/21/reviving-extinct-species/" rel="nofollow">http://longnow.org/seminars/02013/may/21/reviving-extinct-sp...</a>