Specimens of the animal discovered last year have arrived at Kinki University's Gifu Science and Technology Centre in western Japan. "The bone marrow, skin and muscle specimens, frozen in nitrogen liquid... look fine. We first have to confirm whether these are really of a mammoth," said the centre's president, Akira Iritani. The DNA may be damaged and not good enough for cloning, as the remains are believed to be 200,000-300,000 years old, he said. The scientists are planning to use elephant eggs in the cloning process. Vektor Research Centre for Virology and Biotechnology of Russia has been working on the project alongside the Japanese scientists. Last year, the Vladivostok News in Russia reported that scientists believed they could resurrect extinct animals - such as the mammoth and the woolly rhinoceros - to create a prehistoric safari park in northern Siberia. The region's limited infrastructure was seen as one of the obstacles to establishing such a sanctuary. Read more at BBC news Vladivostok News "The search area was narrowed down to several hundred square meters of tundra and the aim was to recover samples bearing viable DNA from the Siberian tiger, steppe lions, giant deer, ancient foxes and the ancestors of the Siberian horse, as well as mammoths and woolly rhinos." WOW! i wanna go when its open