Woolly mammoths, unlike whangdoodles, should stay extinct

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Japanese and Russian scientists trying to resurrect woolly mammoths are risking a morally hairy situation.

The journal Scientific Reports this week published a story about the scientists using cell nuclei from the remains of a 28,000-year-old mammoth to advance the cause of species regeneration. After researchers implanted the nuclei into mouse ova, “the nuclei developed to a state just before cellular division.”

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