![]() ![]() ![]() In 2013, for example, Russian researchers presented an incredibly well-preserved mammoth found on the Lyakhovsky Islands off the Siberian coast, intact down to what was later confirmed to be degraded blood running from the thawing carcass. As Helen Pilcher explains in “Bring Back the King: The New Science of De-Extinction,” some researchers want to change thatĪlmost every new mammoth discovery raises questions of cloning. This might not seem to be the case in the context of a human life span-the last of the woollies perished on an island north of Siberia around 4,000 years ago-but from the perspective of all Earth’s history we’re living on a planet with a mammoth-shaped hole in it. Mammoths went extinct practically yesterday. A diorama of a woolly mammoth at the Royal British Columbia Museum. ![]()
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