Raising the Mammoth (2000)

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In 1997, a family rounding up a herd of reindeer near the Arctic Circle made a remarkable discovery -- an entire woolly mammoth had been frozen intact in the ice, preserved much as it had been upon its death 23,000 years before. A team of scientists set out to recover the creature's remains, and two… More In 1997, a family rounding up a herd of reindeer near the Arctic Circle made a remarkable discovery -- an entire woolly mammoth had been frozen intact in the ice, preserved much as it had been upon its death 23,000 years before. A team of scientists set out to recover the creature's remains, and two years later the beast was moved from its icy grave. The documentary Raising the Mammoth explores how this remarkable discovery was found, how the creature's body was removed and transported, as well as the ethical and scientific questions of what to do with the mammoth (including the possibility of cloning the animal, which is now within the realm of distant scientific possibility). Raising the Mammoth is narrated by actor Jeff Bridges. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi