Comment "High Chance" more like 'Fat Chance' (Score 1) 187
First off, no one has ever cloned an actual living elephant. Horses have been cloned by implanting a cell nucleus from a living cell in a host egg cell and then implanting that in a surrogate mother. That process results in about 1 viable embryo for every 1,000 attempts so it is hardly a sure thing. In TFA however, they are talking about taking a nucleus from a 43,000-year-old frozen cell and implanting that in an egg cell of another species and then implanting the hoped for embryo into a living elephant. There are not that many elephants to try this on worldwide, most of those are in zoos, and even normal reproduction of these elephants is problematic with the population plummeting due to a lack of fertility. The bottom line is, don't expect to see the wooly mammoth at your local petting zoo anytime soon.