It was about the same size as the woolly mammoth but had straight tusks and less hair.

Russian researchers say they have discovered a perfectly preserved woolly mammoth carcass with blood, fueling hopes of cloning the ice animal.

俄罗斯研究人员称他们发现了一具含有血液，保存完好的长毛猛犸象的尸体，这重燃了克隆这种冰河时代动物的希望。

Important gaps in the picture remain, but even so, enough data is there to make a comparison between the woolly mammoth and its closest living relative, the elephant, they said.

科学家们说，基因组序里有重要的遗漏，即使是如此，仍有足够的数据将长毛象和其近亲大象进行对比。

And they found that 70 percent of the mammoths were males.

他们发现70%的猛犸象是雄性的。

Mammoths could walk the earth again.

或许，猛犸象又可以在地球上散步了。

We hunted reindeer, mammoths. Bison, horses.

我们狩猎驯鹿，猛犸象。野牛，野马。

The major change that influenced the demise of the mammoth fauna in southern Siberia was probably initiated after the Last Glaciation Maximum ( LGM).

影响西伯利亚南部猛犸象动物群消亡的主要变化可能开始于末次冰期冰盛期（LGM）之后。

Various labs are doing radiocarbon-dating of the bones to more precisely date them.

不同的实验室正在对这些猛犸象骨骼进行放射性碳测定，以更加精确地得知这些化石的年龄。

But now scientists have noticed a strange trend among those mammoth remains.

不过现在科学家们在那些猛犸象的遗骸中留意到了一个奇怪的趋势。

Researchers got the DNA that codes for hemoglobin from a 43,000-year-old mammoth specimen. They then used E. coli bacteria to produce actual mammoth hemoglobin.

研究人员从一头43000岁的猛犸象标本中获取了其血红蛋白DNA，然后用大肠杆菌培养新的血红蛋白。

because a woolly mammoth fossil was found in the state way back in 1725

因为猛犸象化石早在1725年就发现于州里

The woolly mammoth evolved from earlier mammoth species around 400000 years ago.

从早期的猛犸象进化而来的长毛象生存于约40万年前。

Due to just a few key structural changes, mammoth hemoglobin can release oxygen more readily at cold temperatures.

因为有少数关键的DNA结构发生改变，所以可以推出猛犸象的血红蛋白可以在低温环境下把氧气输送到身体的各个部位。

" What was a mammoth like?" the children asked their teacher curiously.

“猛犸象是什么样子的？”孩子们好奇地问他们的老师。

If humans caused the elephant and mammoth extinctions, Surovell reasoned, the timing of the die-offs in specific regions should match human expansion into those regions.

Surovell提出，如果主要原因在于人类，那么特定地区大象和猛犸象的灭绝情况应与人类在该地区的扩张一致。

What if I am the last mammoth?

如果我是最后的猛犸象怎么办？

urging them to make the woolly mammoth the official state fossil

请他们将猛犸象定为官方州化石

But the state senate passed a bill defining the woolly mammoth as having been

然后州参议院通过的法案中却将猛犸象定义为

He tells of seeing tremendous animals resembling the mammoths of antiquity moving through the brush.

他讲述看见了巨大的动物-类似古代活动的猛犸象-在灌木里行走。

To trace their evolution, the researchers made a large-scale comparison of elephants to other mammal species-including extinct relatives like woolly mammoths and mastodons whose DNA remains in their fossils.

为了追溯它们的演化过程，研究人员对大象和其他哺乳动物（包括猛犸象和乳齿象等虽然已经灭绝，但DNA在化石中得到保存的现代象的“亲戚们”）的基因组进行了大规模的比对。

Studies on Wild Amur Tiger ( Panthera tigris altaica) During Winter Time in Hunchun Nature Reserve, JiLin

吉林珲春自然保护区冬季野生东北虎（Panthera tigris altaica）生态学问题研究