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Reviving the woolly mammoth isn’t just unethical. It’s impossible | Adam Rutherford

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The latest on the conveyor belt of mammoth resurrection stories came this week in the form of a slightly hairy mouse .

Colossal Biosciences has genetically engineered a mouse to express a gene that relates to mammoth hair.

It is a ridiculous suggestion for tackling the climate crisis and more than that, it is scientific folly.

The first mammoth genome was sequenced from remains acquired off eBay from as little as a tenner.

We are witnessing and party to the greatest biodiversity and species loss in human history.

Perhaps focusing our efforts on preserving the millions of threatened creatures that actually exist should be the priority in these hostile times.

The only way you will ever see a living mammoth is if our physicist friends finally crack time travel.

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