Exactly why a majority of the huge creatures that once strode in large herds across Eurasia and North America died out towards the end of the last Ice Age has generated fiery debate.

Some experts hold that mammoths were hunted to extinction by the species that was to become the planet's dominant predator -- humans.

Others argue that climate change was more to blame, leaving a species adapted for frozen climes ill-equipped to cope with a warming world.

Exactly why a majority of the huge creatures that once strode in large herds across Eurasia and North America died out towards the end of the last Ice Age has generated fiery debate.

Some experts hold that mammoths were hunted to extinction by the species that was to become the planet's dominant predator -- humans.

Others argue that climate change was more to blame, leaving a species adapted for frozen climes ill-equipped to cope with a warming world.

The embryo will then be inserted into an elephant's uterus in the hope that the animal will eventually give birth to a baby mammoth.

Is anyone else convinced that the Japanese are interested only because they want to eat a mammoth?

I thought this was going to be a thread about Peter Jurasik, of Babylon 5 fame.

Excellent actor, haven't seen him in anything lately though.

He moved to North Carolina?? Now I am even more jealous.

He lives with his wife and son in Wilmington, North Carolina and teaches acting for the camera in the Film Studies Department at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.