There is. A short article is here: http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/17/scientists-trying-to-clone-resurrect-extinct-mammoth/?hpt=T2
I got this link from the wikipedia entry for ‘woolly mammoth’, which also has some interesting references on there being still surviving herds in the Siberian wilderness (at least to the early 1900’s). Caveat lector... but interesting.
An extinct animal or subspecies has already been brought back this way, some animal from the Pyrenees. I’m still looking for the link - it died shortly after birth though.
Thanks for the link! That’s exactly what I was thinking of...I think Smithsonian did an article on this some time back, and I may dig through my back issues and see if I can find it again. It laid out the (presumed) required steps for a successful mammoth cloning, although there are a couple of different approaches.
This is definitely a marathon and not a sprint. A project like this could go on for years....