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Originally posted by Xantar
At least we have something to incubate a cloned human (namely a human female willing to act as the surrogate mother). To create a mammoth, you would have to grow the thing entirely in a test tube. We can't even do that with humans. At most, human eggs are only fertilized in the lab.

From the article...

But they say their idea is fairly straightforward - by using retrieved DNA from to impregnate an elephant, they could produce a half-elephant, half-mammoth offspring. Over several generations, a creature genetically close to the prehistoric one could be created.