Car parks seem to be intersecting with English history quite a bit lately.
UK scientists have been granted permission by the fertility regulator to genetically modify human embryos.
Scientists at Harvard University have successfully managed to inset genes specific to the woolly mammoth into the genome of an Asian elephant, the extinct species closest living relative.
Genetic analysis of hairs claimed to have come from a ‘bigfoot’ have been matched to samples of less mythical animals such as bears.
Increasingly authorities are using forensic methods to track and trace the origins of seized ivory, providing the means to tackle enforcement problems in the country where the animal was killed, rather than just the point where the attempt was made to smuggle it out of the continent.