DiscoveryNews • Hey there! My science teacher told us that, due to the mammoths thawing in the polar regions, scientists are looking into reintroducing the mammoth species by replacing DNA in an elephant egg with that of a mammoth. Is this true? Is it possible that we may have wooly mammoths roaming the Earth once again? Thanks!

maniacalmailman asked: Hey there! My science teacher told us that, due to the mammoths thawing in the polar regions, scientists are looking into reintroducing the mammoth species by replacing DNA in an elephant egg with that of a mammoth. Is this true? Is it possible that we may have wooly mammoths roaming the Earth once again? Thanks!

Your science teacher speaks the truth!

Jennifer Viegas wrote about this back in December.

Within five years, a woolly mammoth will likely be cloned, according to scientists who have just recovered well-preserved bone marrow in a mammoth thigh bone. Japan’s Kyodo News first reported the find. You can see photos of the thigh bone at this Kyodo page.

Russian scientist Semyon Grigoriev, acting director of the Sakha Republic’s mammoth museum, and colleagues are now analyzing the marrow, which they extracted from the mammoth’s femur, found in Siberian permafrost soil.