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Saturday, March 16, 2013

Reviving the Woolly Mammoth: Will De-Extinction Become Reality?

Reviving the Woolly Mammoth: Will De-Extinction Become Reality? - Yahoo! News: "Ten years later, a group of researchers and conservationists gathered in Washington, D.C., today (March 15) for a forum called TEDxDeExtinction, hosted by the National Geographic Society, to talk about how to revive extinct animals, from the Tasmanian tiger and the saber-toothed tiger to the woolly mammoth and the North American passenger pigeon.



Though scientists don't expect a real-life "Jurassic Park" will ever be on the horizon, a species that died a few tens of thousands of years ago could be resurrected as long as it has enough intact ancient DNA."

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