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The Largest Elephant that Ever Existed

The largest elephant that ever lived was huge, taller than your two story Mayfair flat and almost as tall as the average telephone pole. Evolved from smaller Siberian mammoths, the Songhua River Mammoth roamed Northern China and Inner Mongolia during the Middle Pleistocene about 280,000 years ago. It survived into the Late Pleistocene but died out well before the end of the last ice age.

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Cloning the Woolly Mammoth

In November 2008, a team of scientists at the University of Pennsylvania reported they had sequenced a large fraction of the Mammoth genome. The genome of any living species is the DNA genes which make up the chromosomes that reside in the nucleus of every cell and if we have that, then we might be able recreate the entire beast. We are on the road that leads to cloning a whoolly mammoth.

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