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Woolly mammoths, unlike whangdoodles, should stay extinct

By Quin Hillyer

Published March 12, 2019 11:35pm ET

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Woolly mammoths, unlike whangdoodles, should stay extinct — In this photo taken Tuesday, March 2, 2010, museum guests check out Lyuba, the most complete woolly mammoth specimen ever found and part of a new exhibit called "Mammoths and Mastodons: Titans of the Ice Age" at The Field Museum in Chicago. | (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

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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