Plans are underway for a new Jurassic Park-style attraction in Russia after an official claimed woolly mammoths will return to life in the wild within a decade.

The regional government in Yakutia, Siberia, is supporting scientists seeking to clone the extinct species and bring it back to life using elephants as surrogate mothers.

Experts hope to use similar techniques to make cave lions and extinct horses part of a new 'Ice Age' park.

Aisen Nikolaev, acting head of the territory, forecast that co-operation between Russian, South Korean and Japanese scientists will see the 'miracle' return of woolly mammoths inside ten years.

Plans are underway for a new Jurassic Park-style attraction in Russia after an official claimed woolly mammoths will return to life in the wild within a decade. Pictured: Experts take samples from the remains of a mammoth

The regional government in Yakutia, Siberia, is supporting scientists seeking to clone the extinct species and bring it back to life using elephants as surrogate mothers. Pictured: The remains of a mammoth

Co-operation between Russian, South Korean and Japanese scientists will see the 'miracle' return of woolly mammoths inside ten years, an official claims

He claimed the mammoth return will be possible because of DNA material of the giants found in the permafrost in Yakutia, also called Sakha Repubic, a region until now most famous for diamonds.

'We are actively working with South Korea,' he said. 'Thanks to cooperation with Korean and Japanese scientists, in my opinion, this [cloning a mammoth] will happen in the next decade.

The prospect was no longer fantastical, he said.

In 2014 he first proposed 'an Ice Age Park with mammoths' to act as home for them to roam, he said.

'Everyone laughed then,' said the official. But they're not laughing now, he added.

Mammoths were native to Yakutia, the coldest region in Russia.

'Today, technology is developing at an explosive pace, and what yesterday seemed to be scientific nonsense, today is an absolutely clear prospect for scientists.

Regional capital Yakutsk is expected to build a semi-underground laboratory complex aiming to usher in the return of the woolly monsters. Experts are pictured working on the project

Aisen Nikolaev, acting head of the territory, claimed the mammoth return will be possible because of DNA material of the giants found in the permafrost in Yakutia, also called Sakha Repubic, a region until now most famous for diamonds

'I believe that miracles are possible.'

Regional capital Yakutsk is expected to build a semi-underground laboratory complex aiming to usher in the return of the woolly monsters. US scientists are also working on a return of the mammoths.

Cloning experiments are already underway on extinct ancient horses and cave lions found in Yakutia, seen as a prelude to restoring the mammoth.

Nikolaev said 'every prerequisite' now exists to bring back the species which finally died out some 5,000 years ago after a long decline, reported The Siberian Times.

'We just need to take care about a number of moments linked to the search for raw materials,' he said.

'We are seeing now that every year brings more and more high quality mammoth remains.'

He said: 'I am certain that with the current speed of development of genetic technologies we will be able to reach some real results in the near future.

'This, of course, will be a revolution.'