very hairy mammoth common in colder portions of the northern hemisphere

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.

图序中仍存在重要的缺失，但即使这样，仍有足够的数据将长毛象与它最近的，活着的物种--大象做比较。

scientists are a step closer to bringing the woolly mammoth back from the dead

科学家离复活猛犸象的目标又近了一步。

image 3: woolly mammoth resconstruction at the royal bc museum, victoria, british columbia (wikimedia commons).

图3：加拿大卑诗省维多利亚市的皇家卑诗博物馆中的长毛猛犸复原图（维基公共资源）。

missing only her hair and toenails, lyuba is the best discovered example yet of a woolly mammoth spat from its tomb deep in the russian permafrost.

柳芭仅仅脱落了皮上的粗毛及趾甲，是迄今为止在俄罗斯永久冻土层「墓穴」般深处发现的保存最佳的长毛象样本。

the extinction of the woolly mammoth and other large ice age animals can「t be blamed on a 」human blitzkrieg「, say researchers.

研究者表明：「长毛象以及其他一些大型的冰期动物的灭绝不应归咎于‘人类的袭击’ 。」

it ain」t easy chasing a woolly mammoth with a toddler strapped to your back.

想想，背上背着一个刚学步的小孩去追赶捕捉一头长毛象是件多么不容易的事。

she is the most perfectly preserved woolly mammoth ever discovered.

牠是至今发现的长毛象中保存最为完善的一只。

connecting is what our ancestors were doing thousands of years ago when they gathered around the fire to eat woolly mammoth steaks or stitch together the latest animal-hide fashions.

我们的祖先在几千年前就已经开始建立人际关系，他们围坐在火堆周围大块大块地吃着烤熟的猛犸肉，他们用动物的毛皮制作精美时尚的衣服。

this animal hide covered framework was partially supported and braced with woolly mammoth bones.

这种兽皮覆盖的架构部分由羊毛包裹的猛犸骨骼支撑。

last week, families were touring moscow's palaeontology museum, which has a large woolly mammoth discovered in yakutia in 1842 displayed in its upstairs exhibition.

莫斯科的古生物学博物馆二楼展厅收藏有1842年于雅库特发现的大型猛犸象化石。古生物学博物馆上周游人如织，大部分游客都是举家而来。

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。

it was here that in may 2007 another reindeer herder stumbled on the corpse of a perfectly preserved female baby woolly mammoth – which he named lyuba, after his wife.

2007年5月，另一名驰鹿牧民恰恰在这里意外发现了一具雌性猛犸象幼崽尸体；尸体保存完好。这名牧民给象崽取了他妻子的名字 — 卢芭（lyuba）。

the year saw a flurry of genomes published, from that of the woolly mammoth to individual cancer patients, a feat aided by a surge in new genetic sequencing techniques, which also made the top ten.

一个接一个基因组在这一年中被公布于众，其中包括猛犸(象)和肿瘤患者的基因组，这些成果得益于基因排列技术的新发展。这一技术也位居于十大科学突破之中。

research in the field saw scientists reconstruct the genetic code of the woolly mammoth in 2008, and our neanderthal cousins earlier this year.

在该领域的研究中，科学家于2008年重建了披毛猛犸象的遗传密码，并在今年早些时候重建了早期智人尼安德特人的遗传密码。

the savanna elephant and woolly mammoth have very low genetic diversity, asian elephants have medium diversity, and forest elephants have very high diversity.

草原象与猛犸象的基因多样性非常低，亚洲象的基因多样性居中，而森林象具有非常高的基因多样性。