[dogscoff]

I saw a really interesting program a while back about this guy (Japanese I think) who is searching all these glaciers and things for frozen wooly mammoths. Quite a few have been found that way in the past, some of them in remarkably good condition. There is even a story about a bunch of people finding one and eating it.

Anyway, he wants to find a frozen male mammoth, extract some sperm, fertilise an elephant with it and that way resurrect the species. The first generation would be half elephant, half mammoth (mammophant), then over successive generations he'd make it more and more mammoth until the elephant genes were insignificant. Assuming he finds his sperm, it would take decades or even centuries to complete the project because it takes so long for elephants to reach adulthood and produce offspring.

Imnagine meeting him at a party. "So, what do you do for a living?"