Well, in light of a mostly-sequenced mammoth genome, a lot of people are getting excited about the idea of cloning mammoths. ScienceBlogs.Com has dedicated their front "THE BUZZ IN THE BLOGOSPHERE" section today to it - and their "Reader Reaction" quote is from me (on a fellow blogger's post) - so go check out what other bloggers have been saying about all this!
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