The company Colossal has raised about $225 million to this de-extinction effort. "I think it is an incredibly beneficial thing to conservation," Shapiro says. The animals won't be just released into the wild, they would live in captive environments and interact with other species.
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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