 Initially, we had embarrassingly bad ideas. I'm a little ashamed to admit it. We said, oh, you know, that looks like a good-looking piece of mammoth on eBay. Let's try that. eBay is a bad place to get your mammoth samples. After searching for five years, the team finally found a well-preserved mammoth specimen, skin from behind the ear of a 52,000-year-old female found freeze-dried in Siberia in 2018.