Scientists hope to create a mammoth-e elephant by 2027. They're focusing on genes that help with adapting to the cold, like longer hair or thicker layers of subcutaneous fat. The same scientific process that brought us dolly the sheep is used in this project.
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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