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Will findings recreate the woolly mammoth?

Published November 19, 2008, 9:44 pm, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Two Penn State University professors have mapped much of the genetic code of the woolly mammoth, a possible first step toward re-creating the extinct beast in the next 10 to 20 years.

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