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Extinct animals could be brought back to life
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T.K. RandallJune 17, 2009 ·
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While the idea of bringing extinct species back to life has so far been the subject only of science fiction, thanks to advances in DNA technology we could someday soon be seeing mammoths and even neanderthals walking the Earth once again.
The idea of resurrecting extinct animals moved a step closer to reality last year when scientists announced that they had decoded almost all of the genome of the woolly mammoth, from 60,000-year-old remains found frozen in Siberia. Now New Scientist magazine has named the 10 other beasts most likely to rise again, including the Irish elk deer whose antlers measured 12 feet across, the dodo and Neanderthal man."
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Telegraph |
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