mammoth
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Why a Genome Can’t Bring Back an Extinct Animal
Makeshift mammoths and body-double dodos are on the way – but they won’t be the same.
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The CIA Wants to Bring Back the Woolly Mammoth
A firm funded by the CIA is the latest investor in Colossal Biosciences.
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Did Humans Stab This Ice Age Cave Bear Through the Skull?
Cave bears were hulking beasts you wouldn’t want to run into in the dark (even if they were mostly vegetarians). But it seems a human got the better of one of these now-extinct ursids, according to an assessment made by Russian paleontologists last month.
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Why Bringing Back A Wooly Mammoth Is No Longer Science Fiction
Flying Puffin – Mammu CC BY-SA 2.0 Dr. George Church is a real-life Dr. Frankenstein. The inventor of CRISPR and one of the minds behind the Human Genome Project is no longer content just reading and editing DNA — now he wants to make new life. In Ben Mezrich’s latest book, Wooly: The True Story…