A 42,000-year-old baby woolly mammoth discovered in 2007.
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We’re soon going to be able to live forever.
One resuscitation expert offered recently that death will be reversible.
So the distinctions between the past and present, between history and dreaming, may blur considerably.
It was delightful, therefore, to read Wednesday morning that a world-famous scientist is musing about re-creating a woolly mammoth.
The Guardian explains how the very same scientist who cloned Dolly the Sheep is now considering bigger fish, as it were.
Stem-cell scientist Sir Ian Wilmut (make a sheep and you become a “Sir”) has begun to muse on the possibilities of taking centuries-old cells and bringing one of Hollywood’s favorite animals back to life.
In an article for the very serious journal The Conversation, Wilmut expressed excitement about frozen mammoth bones found in nort… [Read more]
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