A woolly mammoth recreated by the Royal Victoria Museum, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, in 2018. Scientists are now planning on bringing a woolly mammoth to life within the next decade. Credit:Thomas Quine–https://www.flickr.com/photos/quinet/44598416660/CC BY 2.0
Jurassic Park has nothing on three scientists who have decided to reassemble genes from woolly mammoths and resurrect them once again after having been extinct for more than ten thousand years.
What could go wrong, you may well ask, since the Jurassic Park thing turned out so well?
We may soon find out, as $15 million has already been pledged to the effort to bring this species back from extinction with the help of gene editing.
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