BBC - Future - The increasingly realistic prospect of ?extinct animal? zoos
We are a few years away from bringing back woolly mammoths.
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Woolly mammoth DNA is more accessible. We have flash-frozen mammoth samples and can implant the genetic material into elephants, which are genetically similar. We can’t actually bring mammoths back in habitats resembling their original ones, though, where they could breed naturally.
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