Scientists poke frozen mammoth, liquid blood squirts out

The 10,000-year-old beast was found on one of the Lyakhovsky Islands in the Novosibirsk archipelago off the northern coast of Siberia. Researchers from the Northeastern Federal University in Yakutsk poked the remains with an ice pick and, incredibly, blood flowed out.

In September 2012 reports came in that remains with "living" cells had been found by Grigoriev and his team elsewhere in Siberia, but the excitement soon dissipated when it became clear that a translation error had made the discovery seem more impressive than it was.