Bringing back the woolly mammoth and other extinct creatures may be impossible

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If this is a topic that interests you I recommend following Stewart Brand on Twitter for news and updates. He is president of The Long Now Foundation. From him I learned a couple of years ago about the concept of "proxies" and the work being done at my hometown University in Santa Cruz (https://genomics.ucsc.edu/)

$5 million have been allocated to de-extincting the Thylacine ("Tasmanian tiger")!

https://twitter.com/stewartbrand/status/1499095509465661446

> $5 million have been allocated to de-extincting the Thylacine ("Tasmanian tiger")!

"They were so busy thinking about if they could, that they never stopped to think if they should"

- From the movie Jurassic Park, talking about exactly this. And yes, I know, they thought about it.

OT, the movie Jurassic Park made genetics and paleontology exciting, and afterwards the fields both saw a huge uptick in majors. What we now need is a movie that is really exciting, whose heroes are entomologists (bug scientists)

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