Bringing back the woolly mammoth and other extinct creatures may be impossible

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March 9, 2022

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Pennisi, Elizabeth

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Science

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The amount of missing DNA surprised Henry Greely, a bioethicist at Stanford University. “That’s an important issue that I hadn’t focused on.”

But even those who are not sure that de-extinction could or should happen still fantasize about the possibility. Wendling wants to know what a dodo bird is like. And, Greely says, “Personally, I would love to see a giant ground sloth or an saber-toothed cat!”