Woolly mammoth research center to open.

A joint initiative between a Russian university and a South Korean research center will see the center open in Russia’s Sakha Republic this month.

The area, in the North of Russia, is home to 80 percent of Russia’s mammoth remains, thanks largely to the cold conditions which have been able to preserve some remarkably well preserved finds, including mammoth blood still inside one carcass.

“To send material to our [Korean] colleagues is not so simple,” Semyon Grigoryev,  head of the mammoth laboratory at Yakutsk’s Northeastern Federal University, said in comments carried by Interfax.

“We have to obtain a license for this and the process can take nearly six months. Here at the center, scientists can conduct preliminary research on the spot rather than wait for a permit to export their material. This will make work significantly easier for everybody.”