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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2024 06:27:37 JST nixCraft 🐧

   A complete genome has been extracted from a 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth, which might bring us closer to resurrecting the species https://www.newscientist.com/article/2439218-woolly-mammoth-dna-exceptionally-preserved-in-freeze-dried-jerky/ The real question is, should we resurrect the long-extinct species? What could go wrong? 😑

   • GoatsLive (goatslive@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2024 06:35:57 JST GoatsLive

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     @nixCraft Just because science can do a thing, does not mean that they should do the thing!

   • The Planet Repairman (theplanetrepairman@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2024 06:46:10 JST The Planet Repairman

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     @nixCraft

     Our ancestors killed them all, and maybe for good reasons. Maybe they were extremely annoying, or would've taken over the world.

   • Owen Tyme (owentyme@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2024 12:20:40 JST Owen Tyme

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     @nixCraft Hrm. Big Hollywood movie title: Mammoth Park.

     There's a park full of cloned mammoths, but they had to replace some of the DNA with elephant genetics, for the sake of diversity and a breeding population.

     The mammoths soon get out of control and begin rampaging around the place, because an elephant never forgets all the horrible things the human race has done to them in the name of science!