Shaggy elephant story

A Korean scientist's commendable but misguided attempt to stem the tide of species extinction by cloning the distinctly deceased woolly mammoth has been frozen in its tracks, report our friends at The Reg.Not only did Hwang Woo-Suk buy his frozen mammoth tissue from the Russian mafia, but -- the cad -- he falsified his expense claim, putting the Pleistocene pemmican down as 'money for cows for experiment'.