5 Reasons to Bring Back Extinct Animals (And 5 Reasons Not To)

What do you say? Wooly mammoths, yes or no?

By Breanna Draxler
Apr 4, 2013 6:36 PMApr 17, 2020 8:51 PM
Mammoth statue - Shutterstock
Mammoth statue in Parc de la Ciutadella in Barcelona, Spain. (Credit: Philip Lange/Shutterstock)

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Would you like to see a real, live wooly mammoth? Or how about a Tasmanian tiger in the flesh? Scientists have already finagled a few ways to resurrect extinct species from their evolutionary graves. Even muckier than the scientific methods themselves, though, are the social, ethical and legal ramifications of so-called de-extinction.

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