Vladimir Putin interested in the question the possibility of cloning a mammoth – Murmansk bulletin

 
 

Russian President Vladimir Putin at the museum mammoth them. Lazarev NEFU (Yakutsk) showed only complete skeleton of a mammoth and ancient mummy dogs.

 
 

This museum is one of a kind – contains the most unique finds of ancient animals that are able to do for the last decade. Specially arranged for the president special exposition, where demonstrated the basic wealth of the museum fund, “Interfax».

In particular, Putin showed only complete skeleton of a mammoth. It is considered complete if 75% of the bones belong to the same animal.

Manager of the museum Semyon Grigoriev told the head of state, which for the past four years, managed to gather a collection of more than 4 thousand. Copies. One of them is the mummy of a dog, whose age is 12.5 thousand. Years.

«This is the time of mammoths?” – Said Putin. Grigoriev replied in the affirmative, noting that this finding is also unique in the world.

Another unique exhibit – datagaysky bison. “This is the last bison Eurasia” – said the head of the museum, showing the remains of the calf of the animal.

But the main wealth of the museum is Malolyahovsky mammoth. He was found on the shore of the island of Great Lyakhovsky. Females on the carcass of a mammoth preserved soft tissue and even liquid blood. Age of the animal is 28 thousand. Years.

Vladimir Putin’s interested in the question to determine whether the found materials to clone a mammoth, “Soft tissue preserved. Hence, it can be cloned? “Museum staff have noted that now in this direction is to work closely with scientists from South Korea.

Students North-Eastern Federal University (NEFU) presented the first head of state histology of the soft tissues of the mammoth. Able to detect a blood vessel, comprising a liquid blood. In addition, have been found, presumably, whole leukocytes and brown adipose tissue.

As for the prospects of cloning, the students told Putin that the whole-cell DNA from mammoth found there. A blood sample is in cryo-storage at a temperature of minus 17 degrees.

Putin also visited treated human teeth and even used a spear from the horn of a woolly rhinoceros, whose analogue in the world. His age is 12.5 thousand. Years. Place of discovery shows that even in times of mammoths humans settled Arctic latitudes.