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Wooly Mammoth Genes Inserted Into Elephant Cells
The procedure is the latest step in longer-term efforts to 'de-extinct' a creature that has not roamed Earth in thousands of years.
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azmom
(5,208 posts)news.discovery.com/animals/woolly-mammoth-genes-inserted-into-elephant-cells-150325.htm
enlightenment
(8,830 posts)but what is the point of bringing back the wooly Mammoth? Just to say we can? Seems a bit cruel to the critter, since the world they lived in and were adapted for is long, long gone.
Panich52
(5,829 posts)besides scientific curiosity, the only reason to revive a nammoth would be as a food source. And an impractical one at that.