Photo of the Week - Wooly mammoth found in Siberia with preserved blood

Woolly mammoths could be brought back from extinction after scientists discover blood and muscle tissue buried in an ice tomb for 10,000 years

According to The Siberian Times, the blood will now be made available to South Korean scientists seeking to use mammoth DNA to bring creatures back to life.

The find - said to be the first time mammoth blood has been discovered - comes amid a hotly contested debate over the morality of Jurassic Park-style projects to restore extinct creatures to the planet, with some scientists insisting it will be impossible to get exactly the same mammoths as once roamed Siberia.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2332787/Woolly-mammoths-brought-extinction-scientists-discover-blood-muscle-tissue-buried-ice-tomb-10-000-years.html#ixzz2UlPR7HPD 

Is 'Siberian Stonehenge' really the birthplace of astronomy? (Daily Mail)

- Sunduki in Siberia may be oldest human observatory in history

- Russian scientist claims to have found evidence of crude solar calendars

- Ancients 'used landscape to record time'

A Russian scientist believes a remote Siberian rock formation may be the first place that humanity began to follow the movements of the heavens.

Sunduki, known as the Siberian Stonehenge, is a series of eight sandstone outcrops on a remote flood plain on the bank of the Bely Iyus river in the republic of Khakassia.

Professor Vitaly Larichev, of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography at the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, claims that the 16,000-year-old site was not only a place of huge religious significance in the ancient world, but also its stargazing capital.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2312902/Is-Siberian-Stonehenge-really-birthplace-astronomy--Astonishing-theory-remote-spot-used-stargazers-16-000-years-ago.html#ixzz2RHQlevum
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