On a campaign to the Batagaika pit in Siberia a group of Mammoth tusk trackers revealed the almost safeguarded stays of a 42,000-year-old foal.

Instead, the young foal did not show any signs of external damage. The region’s permafrost or permanently frozen ground preserved the animal’s fur, tail, and hooves, as well as the hair on its leg and head.

According to the Siberian Times, a researcher at South Korea’s Biotech Sooam and a professor at Russia’s North-Eastern Federal University extracted blood and urine from the specimen. This paves the way for additional research aimed at cloning the long-dead horse and reviving the extinct Lenskaya lineage to which it belonged.

Researchers will take suitable cells from the blood tests and develop them in the lab to clone the creature. To help the cells grow, they might take a look at SciQuip’s selection of incubators.

It’s harder to say than to do this job. According to a recent report from the Siberian Times, the team has made more than 20 attempts in the past month to grow cells from the tissue of the foal, but all of them have been unsuccessful. Russian analyst Lena Grigoryeva said that the members stay “sure about the result.”

The way that the pony actually has hair makes it one of the most very much safeguarded Ice Age creatures at any point found, Grigoryev tells CNN’s Gianluca Mezzofiore, adding, “Presently we can express out loud whatever tone was the fleece of the wiped out ponies of the Pleistocene period.”

The foal had a bay-colored body and a black tail and mane when it was born. The young Lenskaya, or Lena horse, who was just one to two weeks old when he died, died at the same untimely age as many other animals that were otherwise unharmed and kept in permafrost for millennia.

According to the Siberian Times, Semyon Grigoryev of Yakutia’s Mammoth Museum told Russian news agency TASS that the foal probably drowned in a “natural trap” of some kind—namely, mud that later froze into permafrost.

According to Grigoryev, “a lot of mud and silt that the foal gulped during the last seconds of its life were found inside its gastrointestinal tract.”

This is just the second time analysts have separated fluid blood from the remaining parts of ancient animals. In 2013, a gathering of Russian researchers achieved a similar accomplishment utilizing the body of a 15,000-year-old female wooly mammoth found by Grigoryev and his partners in 2013, as George Dvorsky reports for Gizmodo.

(It’s important that the group concentrating on the foal has likewise communicated any desires for cloning a wooly mammoth.) The foal’s blood is significantly older than the previous sample by a staggering 27,000 years.

The new research’s NEFU and South Korean researchers are so sure of their success that they have already begun looking for a surrogate mare to carry the cloned Lena horse and fulfill “the historic role of giving birth to the comeback species,” according to the Siberian Times.

However, it’s important to note that any praise is premature and reflects the “typical unbridled enthusiasm” that the Russian news outlet’s reports exhibit, according to Dvorsky.

“I think that even the unique preservation of blood is absolutely hopeless for cloning purposes since the main blood cells… do not have nuclei with DNA,” Grigoryev explained in an interview with CNN’s Mezzofiore.

“We are trying to find intact cells in muscle tissue and internal organs that are also very well-preserved,” he went on to say.

What the Siberian Times neglects to address are the complex “moral and mechanical” questions raised by restoring a distant memory animal types. Dvorsky says that scientists have worried about the clone’s lower quality of life, problems with genetic diversity and inbreeding, and the lack of an adequate habitat from the Ice Age.

The Russian-South Korean team’s ability to achieve its lofty objective remains to be seen. However, if the alleged resurgence in July 2018 of two 40,000-year-old roundworms that had “defrosted” in the Arctic permafrost after millennia is any indication, the resurgence of ancient animals is becoming an increasingly plausible possibility.