It sounds like a Michael Crichton novel (God rest his soul), but an international team of gene hackers just mapped over 80% of a woolly mammoth’s DNA using 20,000-year-old hair follicles. The remaining 20% should only take a few more years.
Penn State biochemist Stephan Schuster says it might be possible to impregnate an African elephant with reconstructed mammoth DNA (the Jurassic Park guys used frogs).
No word yet on whether the resurrected mammoths will sound like Ray Ramano.
Update: I swear I came up with the title of this post myself, but apparently there is an actual Pleistocene Park in Siberia that hopes to be the future home of cloned woolly mammoths and other cryptozoological gems.
