(Times Online UK) BODIES of extinct Ice Age mammals, such as woolly mammoths, that have been frozen in permafrost for thousands of years may contain viable sperm that could be used to bring them back from the dead, scientists said yesterday.

Research has indicated that mammalian sperm can survive being frozen for much longer than was previously thought, suggesting that it could potentially be recovered from species that have died out.

What type of sick freak would reintroduce an extinct species back into the general population. Aren’t these the same guys who panic when [name of species] is brought to [name of region] and destroys the [name of lesser species]?

And what type of burden would you be putting on this new creature? How would you like to be the only living Mammoth? All of your friends would be say, “Dude, what’s up with the fur? Did you mom marry a monkey?” And you’d respond by coughing up a hairball and spitting it through your tusk. Though it would be cool to be able to say 25,000 years ago your father was roaming the earth chasing cavemen.