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Woolly Mammoth de-extinction project underway in Dallas
(www.nbcdfw.com)
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Why not both?
Is anyone proposing both?
This feels like a publicity stunt at best. Why de-extinct something at all, especially something with no current ecological niche?
Not too mention, de-extincting something that is from a much colder point of history while we are heating up the planet.