The company colossal says they're creating an elephant mammoth hybrid. But their site also says that they want to see the woolly mammoth funder upon the tundra once again, which sounds a lot like bringing back full mammoths. Beth Steiner: "I think my opposition really comes to this general perception that it is possible to bring something that is extinct back to life" Tori Herridge: "It's a tabloid-esque version of science."
Scientists are hard at work trying to bring back woolly mammoths (and dodos). But should they? And what would they actually be bringing back?
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