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Forget mammoths, study shows how to resurrect Christmas Island rats
A team of researchers used the brown rat, commonly used in lab experiments and seen in this photo, as a modern reference species to help reconstruct the genome of the extinct Christmas Island rat. Ever since the movie Jurassic Park, the idea of bringing extinct animals back to life has captured the public's imagination—but what…
March 13, 2022
Woolly Mammoths and Other Ice Age Animals Will Roam the Metaverse
A virtual model of the Columbian mammoth. La Brea Tar Pits On a remote Arctic island, some 4,000 years ago, woolly mammoths took their last steps on Earth. Around 6,000 years prior, the final few sabre-toothed cats preyed across the Americas. And 3,000 years before that, majestic dire wolves became creatures of the past. Scientists are…
March 2, 2022