Frozen Woolly Mammoth Inspires Cloning Project

  • 04/10/1999

In a movie plot come to life, a Northern Arizona University geologist is preparing to excavate and clone a woolly mammoth from DNA. The geologist, Dr. Larry D. Agenbroad, is part of an international team of scientists whose first task is to cut the cloning candidate -- the likes of which roamed the earth about 23,000 years ago -- from a Siberian ice field.