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Mammoth Task: Billionaire-Funded Effort to Resurrect Woolly Beast
Mammoths went extinct more than 10,000 years ago, with scientists unsure whether human hunting or climate change finished them off. Now Mr Thiel is said to have backed a top Harvard team attempting to bring the enormous mammals back to … Continue reading
A mammoth task: How do we decide which species to resurrect?
The resurrection of vanished species — through cutting-edge technologies such as gene-editing — should be targeted towards recently extinct species rather than ancient ones, according to a conservation biologist. He suggests that long-gone species such as the woolly mammoth would … Continue reading