Northern Tuskers: Scientists One Colossal Step Closer to ‘De-Extinction’ of the Wooly Mammoth – But Why?
Remember when we lived in a world in which science was not a necessary synonym for ‘bad ideas’?
From sex-change surgeries to blocking the sunlight from reaching planet Earth, there is no shortage of lunacy menacing us with possibly dangerous and even potentially catastrophic outcomes.
So, how about the de-extinction of animals? I mean, Jurassic Park may be fun to watch for a couple of hours, but do we want to live in it?
Take the mighty Wooly Mammoth, for example. No, I’m not kidding.
These big boys were the bosses of the northernmost regions in Eurasia and America.
They went extinct thousands of years ago through no fault of ours,
