Eli5 if Woolly Mammoths we’re perfectly preserved in ice, how come we can’t extract samples of eggs and sperm and implant them in an elephant/artificial woolly mammoth uterus

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Eli5 if Woolly Mammoths we’re perfectly preserved in ice, how come we can’t extract samples of eggs and sperm and implant them in an elephant/artificial woolly mammoth uterus

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So woolly mammoths are not perfectly preserved in ice. They are unexpectedly well preserved compared to what you expect from a 800 thousand years old corpse. Some of them even look as good as if they were dead only for decades. It’s miraculously good state for something that’s dead since so long. Still it’s a state of decay that’s way beyond any hope for revival.