Word: siberia
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About 20,000 years ago, a very big animal had a very bad day. Deep in Siberia, an 11-ft.-tall woolly mammoth fell over dead. It became entombed in the permafrost, where it remained until last week, when it was finally freed. If scientists have their way, the same mammoth--or rather, its cloned kin--could walk again...
...scientific eyes of the world--and a few well-placed network cameras--watched, Russian scientists used a helicopter to extract a twenty-ton block of ice from the permafrost of Siberia. The block, believed to contain the fully intact remains of a 23,000 year-old woolly mammoth, was transported to Moscow where it now sits in a permanently frozen cave awaiting further scientific examination...
...from Australia rather than Mongoloids from Northeast Asia. Research presented this week portrays a people who traveled by sea from Australia to South America 13,000 years ago. Anthropologists have long reasoned that the Americas' first inhabitants were Mongoloid hunters who followed large game across a land bridge between Siberia and Alaska, formed between 12,000 and 20,000 years ago when glaciers melted. Over the centuries, the theory goes, these Asians migrated from Anchorage to Buenos Aires...
...Barnum would be seeing dollar signs, and so, apparently, is the team of French explorers who recently excavated a frozen 23,000-year-old woolly mammoth in Siberia ? and now wants to clone it. Bernard Buigues, the man who led the project to carve out a 23-ton ice block around the animal and helicopter it 150 miles to an ice cave laboratory, told reporters Wednesday that he hopes to either clone the animal or use its sperm to fertilize the egg of an Asian elephant. No action will be taken until April, Buigues said, at which point a team...
...endless regatta of 1,000-watt, magazine-cover-ready superteens, NBC has created a rich, character-driven ensemble show, fueled by Styx music and outsiders' gallows humor, that's more Richard Linklater than Kevin Williamson--and has rewarded it with a time slot in Saturday night's Siberia. Now, in fact, might be a good time to register www.save-f&g.com In the meantime, we'll set our VCRs. WHEN Starts Sept...