a (small) thing of weight and mass

Space travel and the cloning of a woolly mammoth are two things the future has promised me my entire life. Looks like the latter is closer than the former.

Within five years, a woolly mammoth will likely be cloned, according to scientists who have just recovered well-preserved bone marrow in a mammoth thigh bone. Japan’s Kyodo News first reported the find. … Russian scientist Semyon Grigoriev, acting director of the Sakha Republic’s mammoth museum, and colleagues are now analyzing the marrow, which they extracted from the mammoth’s femur, found in Siberian permafrost soil.

You can see photos of the mammoth thigh bone here.