Mammoth may be cloned after frozen body found

Scientists have uncovered amazing details about the life of a woolly mammoth after its preserved body was found frozen in the snowy wastes of Siberia.

The good condition of the ancient animal has even raised hopes it could be cloned and the team were able to use carbon-dating techniques to reveal it had walked the earth around 40,000 years ago.

An autopsy of the animal, which was nicknamed Buttercup by scientists, will be shown in a Channel 4 documentary later this month.