Raising the Mammoth
The Discovery Channel's first documentary about the 1998 discovery of a frozen mammoth in Siberia features an interview with French expedition leader Bernard Buigues. Rare footage shows the treacherous attempts to airlift the block of ice by helicopter, and the film explores scientific proposals to clone new mammoths from the DNA found.
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Ho Hum About Mammoths or Cloning - fairweather
This is a documentary about finding and then airlifting out a mammoth (still in ice block form) from the frozen Siberian wasteland. That is almost exclusively all that is covered, although they do cover the natives very nicely, too.
I had hoped to see more in depth coverage of them doing stuff with the mammoth once they thawed it out of that block of ice. Dry proposals about what they INTEND to do just do not satisfy and leave you wishing for a sequel to explain what happened to it. Cloning is barely mentioned. It ends, unfortunately, with the mammoth still in the block of ice.
But as for exploring and finding one, that was covered well.. as well as a nice look at the lives of the native people. :)
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Ho Hum About Mammoths or Cloning - fairweather
This is a documentary about finding and then airlifting out a mammoth (still in ice block form) from the frozen Siberian wasteland. That is almost exclusively all that is covered, although they do cover the natives very nicely, too.
I had hoped to ...