I read somewhere reasonably respectable that the mammoth project was going to proceed via artificial insemination of elephants using mammoth sperm. They are looking for the mammoths testes. The hope is to end up with something 88% mammoth after several generaitons in about 50 years time.
It is not a cloning project. The freezing issue is of course an important one and we'll just have to wait and see. All they need is one undamaged sperm. And you don't have to find it biotechnologically. The elephant egg will find it for you! Given that other tissues have survived I would give this project a chance.
I think this comes under the heading of 'why not try'.
[This message has been edited by Tranquility Base, 08-26-2002]
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