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Resurrecting the Mammoth for $10 Million Alex

Posted by Aaron Burns on November 23rd, 2008

The New York Times has a story about a PSU scientist who believes he can regenerate a mammoth for $10 million once its genome is sequenced.

Show of hands, who thinks this is a good idea? Did you people not see Jurassic Park? Come on you this animal died off for a reason, no second chances!

“Mammoth escape at the San Diego Zoo, Neanderthal resurrected to capture or kill it.”

“Neanderthal escape at a local lab, Sabertooth Cat resurrected to kill it.”

This is just the start, we’ll have a full fledged Jurassic Park before this century’s over. What a terrible idea.

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