Resurrecting the Wooly Mammoth

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Russian and Korean Researchers Will Inject Mammoth DNA Into Elephant Eggs, Resurrecting 10,000-Year-Old Beast


By Rebecca Boyle Posted 03.14.2012 at 3:03 pm



Woolly Mammoth Recreation Wikimedia Commons


First a plant from the past sprouted new life — now researchers in Russia and South Korea are moving forward with a plan to resurrect the Ice Age woolly mammoth. Scientists in both countries inked a deal Tuesday to share technology and research that could lead to the birth of a mammoth clone, gestated in a surrogate Indian elephant mother.

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Will be interesting to see if they pull it off, just so they don't start calling themselves "gods".