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The science to bring back the extinct
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Feb 28, 2014
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The science to bring back the extinct
There's a growing science and business to bring back species like the woolly mammoth and the passenger pigeon, among many others.
A file photo from 2011 shows a man touching a giant bronze sculpture of a mammoth in the Siberian city of Khanty-Mansiysk. A team of Russian and South Korean scientists who found a well-preserved frozen woolly mammoth carcass this month say it also included blood.
A man touching a giant bronze sculpture of a mammoth in the Siberian city of Khanty-Mansiysk
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There's a growing science and business to bring back species like the woolly mammoth and the passenger pigeon, among many others.

The movie "Jurassic Park" came out more than 20 years ago, and you would think - two decades later - that we'd be a lot closer to accomplishing what the scientists in that movie had done: revive extinct species.

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But there's a growing effort to bring back species like the woolly mammoth and the passenger pigeon, among many others.

Nathaniel Rich explains in his new Sunday New York Times Magazine cover story, "The Mammoth Cometh."