Mammoths Roaming the Earth?

Extracting sperm from frozen mammoths to possibly create an extinct animal? Why? Reviving Woolly Mammoths

The extinct woolly mammoth could be brought to life, according to scientists. They believe it may be possible by extracting sperm from animals encased in ice and injecting it into elephant eggs. It follows a discovery that sperm taken from the frozen reproductive organs of dead mice can produce viable offspring.

Mice and mammoths? Aren't they a tad different? I mean, other than size.

The idea would be to inject mammoth reproductive cells, assuming they could be retrieved, into the eggs of female elephants. A successful pregnancy would produce the closest thing possible to a living mammoth - the result of crossing one of the extinct animals with a modern day relative.

Is there a point? The critter has been extinct for quite a while. These scientist types couldn't put their time, and money, to better use? Like, say, finding a cure for some disease?

Woolly mammoths, which stood 11ft tall and weighed seven tons, became extinct at the end of the last ice age, about 10,000 years ago.

I wonder how they'd taste on the grill.