The Last Animal - Ramona Ausubel Gebunden

Jane is a serious scientist on the cutting-edge team of a bold project looking to 'de-extinct' the wooly mammoth. She's privileged to have been sent to Siberia to hunt for ancient DNA but there's a catch: Jane's two 'tagalong' teen daughters are there with her in the Arctic and they're bored enough to cause trouble. ... When [they] stumble upon a 4 000-year-old baby mammoth that has been perfectly preserved their discovery sets off a chain of events that pit Jane against her colleagues. ... [This novel] takes readers on an expansive big-hearted journey that explores the possibility and per il of the human imagination on a changing planet what it's like to be a woman and a mother in a field dominated by men and how a wondrous discovery can best be enjoyed with family--even teenagers--