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The Climate Crisis Has Created a Woolly Mammoth Gold Rush in Siberia
Permafrost thawing in Siberia is revealing tusks from woolly mammoths that have been dead for 4,000 years, which some Russians are now making a living from.
Scientists Traced a Wooly Mammoth's Lifetime Journey, and It's Astonishing
Researchers found the mammoth walked a distance equal to nearly twice the circumference of Earth using isotopes of strontium and oxygen.
Scientists Sequenced Million-Year-Old Mammoth DNA, the Most Ancient Ever
DNA recovered from two mammoths that lived more than a million years ago reveal new insights about the evolution of these extinct animals.
‘De-Extinction’ Is a Bad Idea Because We Can’t Even Take Care of What We’ve Got
Bringing extinct animals back from the dead could hurt existing species, says a new report.
Geneticists Want to Bring the Great Auk Back From the Dead
The great auk could live once more, but is that such a good idea?
What Woolly Mammoth Extinction Tells Us About Our Rapidly-Changing Future
They died of thirst on a remote Alaskan island.
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The Mission to Clone the Woolly Mammoth
Whether or not we can clone a mammoth is the simpler question. The big one is: should we?