Hwang Woo Suk is Very Excited – IOTW Report

Hwang Woo Suk is Very Excited

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Scientists are poised to learn a lot more about prehistoric man’s best friend after discovering a shockingly well-preserved 12,400-year-old puppy in Siberia…

… an autopsy conducted after washing “thousands of years of mud and dirt” off the Tumat Puppy at the Geological Institute in Moscow revealed an even more surprising degree of preservation: The canid’s brain is still 70% to 80% intact

Hwang Woo-Suk, who the Telegraph describes as a “controversial Korean scientist,” wants to go even further. Woo-Suk, who’s building a cloning facility in China, took samples of the Tumat Puppy’s muscle, skin, and cartilage in the hopes of bringing back the extinct species. “He was very excited,”

See the autopsy after the jump —>

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  1. In the ’30s a former neighbor’s grandfather found a complete Mastodon in the field. They tried to give it to a museum that declined it, so they bolted it together, put it on a float in a parade. Nobody wanted it so they then busted it up and put it back in the field.

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