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Scientists map genome of woolly mammoth, extinct since last ice age

Published November 19, 2008, 7:16 pm, CNews

TORONTO - Scientists have sequenced much of the genome of the woolly mammoth, raising the tantalizing but remote possibility that one day the long-extinct mammal could be resurrected to again trudge through the Arctic snow.

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