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Paleontology, also spelled palaeontology[a] or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossils to classify organisms and study their interactions with each other and their environments (their /c/paleoecology. Read more...

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Not too mention, de-extincting something that is from a much colder point of history while we are heating up the planet.