Now scientists want to bring them back using technology "roughly similar" to that in Jurassic Park. And we know how ... Mammoth genome sequence completed. Woolly mammoths ... "The only reason the mammoth has emerged as the iconic target for de-extinction is that it would be utterly cool. read more
Image caption Siberian explorer Bernard Buigues, views the tusks of what is believed to be a 23,000-year-old woolly mammoth whose body is preserved in the ice in the Taimyr Peninsula, Siberia. read more
Scientists want to bring it back. A Mammoth tusk extracted from ice complex deposits along the Logata River in Taimyr, Russia, in an undated handout photo. HANDOUT / Courtesy Professor Per Moller via Reuters file. It sounds outlandish, and, in some respects, it is. read more