What’s happened to the mammoth calf ??

Question

Does anyone remember the baby mammoth that was discovered frozen in the Siberian permafrost in Russia in may 2007 and was sent to Japan to be examined and studied (there was even talk of cloning it), anyway it has been nearly a year since it was sent to Japan, does anyone know what the examination revealed and where the baby mammoth is now - all news about it seems to have dried up ??

Answer 1

As suspected, the examination confirmed that it was dead.

Answer 2

I believe the Japanese ate it.

Answer 3

I found this in an article about ivory:

Most recently, a Nenets herdsman discovered a frozen calf on the Yamal Peninsula last May. It has been named Lyuba and is kept in a freezer in Mr. Tikhonov’s museum in St. Petersburg. Scientists are sampling its tissue for a scientific effort to sequence the mammoth genome.

Mr. Tikhonov dismissed cloning as improbable, though gene splicing could be used to add mammoth characteristics to Asian elephants, he said.

Published: March 26, 2008