Scientists now examining new discovery in hunt for 'living cells'.
Samples taken from extinct animal’s leg during international workshop in the hope of one day bringing the hairy creature back from the dead.
Unique 16,200 year old chest vertebra with spear wound to undergo ultramodern tests in search for truth about extinction of giant beast.
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.
Project to be unveiled at 4th Eastern Economic Forum next month and likely to contain laboratories sunk into the permafrost.
Call to protect unique site with thousands of ideally preserved bones of prehistoric animals.
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.