Samples taken from extinct animal’s leg during international workshop in the hope of one day bringing the hairy creature back from the dead.
Call to protect unique site with thousands of ideally preserved bones of prehistoric animals.
Evidence on Arctic island show how people 10,000 or more years ago carved sharp slices off tusks to use for killing and cutting.
Over thousands of years, the giant beasts came to die in the same place - but the older ones were twice the size of the final mammoth generations.
Palaeontologist says osteoporosis could have been major contributor, brought on by a lack of minerals in habitat from climate change.
Project to be unveiled at 4th Eastern Economic Forum next month and likely to contain laboratories sunk into the permafrost.
Skeleton of almost complete beast discovered on banks of Lena River close to Yakutsk.
Scientists remain confident of one day bringing back the beast to roam again in Siberia.