Has it ever occurred to you to try to de-extinct an animal? Well it occurred to a few scientists to bring mammoths back. We think that dinosaurs are gone, so we can not clone them; but mammoths, well we'll see.. So first a couple of scientists got together and started to find bones and hairs of animal species that have gone extinct, in particular the mammoth. Then they got DNA samples from these products, trying to figure out why these animals had gone extinct. These scientists really want to clone a mammoth but is it really possible? We know that the mammoth's closest living relative is the Asian elephant, and they are practically 99% similar. So what makes mammoths look like mammoths and elephants look like elephants, what is that 1% difference? Well another scientist has now tried taking parts of the Asian elephant and replacing them with parts of the mammoth, scary right? So anyway, if scientists really do find that 1% difference between the Asian elephants and the mammoths then maybe they could clone a mammoth, but who knows! Here is a podcast with a lot more information! (By Semma)
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