South Korean scientists clone Ice Age lions after finding cubs frozen in PERFECT condition
SCIENTISTS have begun work on a bid to clone extinct cave lions after the discovery of two ancient cubs in perfect condition in the Siberian permafrost.
By WILL STEWART
Express.co.uk
Sat, Mar 5, 2016
The effort is being made by a South Korean team already seeking to bring back to life the long-gone woolly mammoth.
Controversial cloning guru Hwang Woo-suk was in the Russian city of Yakutsk this week to supervise the removal of samples of skin and muscle tissue from a young cave lion which died at least 12,000 years ago.
There was a bizarre dispute between him and Siberian scientists over the size of the frozen slivers he could obtain.
The Seoul scientist was “unhappy with the samples”, admitted Semyon Grigoriev, director of the world famous Mammoth Museum in Yakutsk, which is involved in analysing the cave lion cubs which died during the Pleistocene era but were preserved in near-perfect condition by permafrost.
Dr Grigoriev told The Siberian Times said: “They expected to take more, as they did with the woolly mammoth previously.
“But it will not work with with these little kittens.
“You have to understand, the lion cub is very small, so it was not possible to get as much as we would like.”
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