Someone Call John Hammond At Ingen!  An ancient find in Siberia is giving new steam to researchers hoping to clone an extinct creature:  A great Wooly Mammoth, frozen is such a way that the blood is still relatively fresh.

A paleontological expedition from a major Russian University and the Russian Geographical Society discovered the body of a female mammoth in a remarkably good state of preservation in the Novosibirsk archipelago in Siberia.

“The fragments of muscle tissues, which we've found out of the body, have a natural red color of fresh meat,” says expedition leader Semyon Grigoriev.  “The reason for such preservation is that the lower part of the body was underlying in pure ice, and the upper part was found in the middle of tundra.”

The scientists gathered blood samples for testing, which turned out to be a fairly simple process.  “The blood is very dark, it was found in ice cavities bellow the belly and when we broke these cavities with a poll pick, the blood came running out,” Grigoriev says.

Unfortunately, there could already be a fly in the ointment.  The Russians didn't call the fictional John Hammond, they've partnered with controversial South Korean cloning scientist Hwang Woo-Suk, who was found to have faked data involving a procedure to clone human embryonic stem cells.