Scientists found a 40,000-year-old woolly mammoth, nicknamed "Buttercup," in Siberia last year, and they're on their way to cloning its DNA.
The female Buttercup lived for roughly 50 years and was eight feet tall. The scientists believe it was eaten by predators.
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