woolly mammoths
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Woolly Mammoth CRISPR Hybrids Could Exist By 2027
CRISPR startup Colossal has some very lofty goals for the next four to six years.
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A 15,000-Year-Old Trap For Catching Woolly Mammoths Has Been Discovered In Mexico
Archaeologists working at a site near Mexico City have unearthed a 15,000-year-old trap built by humans to capture mammoths, in what’s the first discovery of its kind.
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Ancient Elephants And Mastodons Were Totally Down With Inter-Species Boning
The history of elephants – from gigantic woolly mammoths through to modern forest-dwelling pachyderms – is more complicated than we thought. An analysis of modern and ancient elephant genomes shows that interbreeding and hybridisation was an important aspect of elephant evolution.
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A Movie Is Being Made About The De-Extinction Of The Woolly Mammoth
Author Ben Mezrich is no stranger to finding a cool story and seeing it become a movie. He wrote the books that got turned into The Social Network and 21 and now his upcoming work has already been picked up by Hollywood. It’s about the potential return of the woolly mammoth.