X-Message-Number: 9986
Date: Sun, 05 Jul 1998 18:39:34 -0400
From: Jan Coetzee <>
Subject: Re: CryoNet #9974 - #9980
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Scientists hope to revive mammoths


LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists are mounting an expedition to Siberia seek out 
frozen
mammoth
sperm and bring the extinct species back to life, the Sunday Times reported.


The newspaper said the plan was to use the frozen sperm to fertilize elephants' 
eggs
and breed
hybrids.


"Cross-breeding with successive generations would allow the hybrids gradually to
become pure
genetic copies of their mammoth ancestors," the report said.


The Sunday Times said British, Russian and Japanese researchers were involved in
the
project,
which will hunt for frozen mammoths in the permafrost of eastern Siberia.


Mammoths -- large hairy elephant-like creatures -- died out some 30,000 years 
ago but
their
remains have been found in several places in Siberia.

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