Bringing back the friendly face of Ice Age…
Welcome to Pleistocene Park
Having converted the frozen fragments of Woolly Mammoth DNA into sequence data, researchers are working to recreate this extinct giant that shaped much of the ecosystem of the arctic tundra as a keystone species, and perhaps they can restore that region to its prior health as well.
More info on the LongNow Revive & Restore project, and progress to date: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/10865337525/
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