Can Scientists Resurrect Extinct Species?

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By Ken Ham

Will “Jurassic Park” someday be a reality? Well, scientists are working on trying to bring back a variety of extinct species, such as the woolly mammoth, passenger pigeon, and Tasmanian tiger (thylacine). Will they be successful? A new study says . . . maybe, sort of.

This idea of bringing back extinct species is called “de-extinction” and involves studying preserved DNA from an extinct species and editing the DNA of a closely related species (both are part of the same kind, such as the woolly mammoth and African or Asian elephants) to match, as closely as possible, the DNA of …read more

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