FILE GERMANY MAMMOTH ( FILE ) A file picture dated 18 November 2010 showing a live - sized stuffed mammoth and his young wandering through a reconstructed prairie landscape , on display in an exhibition , entitled ' Mammoths . Giants of the Ice Age ', at the Neanderthal Museum in Mettmann , Germany . Japanese daily Yomiuri Shimbun reported 18 January 2011 that Japanese researchers plan to start a project 2011 to re - create a mammoth , the long - extinct pachyderm , by using cloning technology . The aim is to produce a clone of a mammoth in five years time . According to the newspaper , researchers will try to obtain tissue from a carcass of a preseved mammoth in Russia , then use it to extract nuclei that is then placed into an elephant ' s egg shell . EPA / ROLAND WEIHRAUCH < 뉴스 의 새 시대 , 연합뉴스 Live > < 모바일 애플리케이션 > < 포토 매거진 >< 저작권자 ( c ) 연합뉴스 . 무단 전재 - 재배 포금 지 . >