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'Closer than people think': Woolly mammoth 'de-extinction' is nearing reality — and we have no idea what happens next

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'Closer than people think': Woolly mammoth 'de-extinction' is nearing reality — and we have no idea what happens next

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months ago

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Scientists are getting very close to bringing a few iconic species, like woolly mammoths and dodos, back from extinction. That may not be a good thing.

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I don’t want to live in a world that has wooly mammoths with floppy tusks. It just seems wrong.
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  Of course it seems wrong when you say it like that.

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