You haven’t seen any woolly mammoths hanging out around here lately, have you?
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Woolly Mammoth Sightings – Are These Prehistoric Creatures Still Alive?
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Will Scientists Soon Resurrect the Woolly Mammoth?
How would you feel about resurrecting a lost species? Say, the woolly mammoth? This large, hairy beast went extinct about 4,000 years ago, fairly recently in the grand scheme of things. It coexisted with humans before its final population died out in the Arctic Ocean, on Wrangel Island.
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Top 5 Celebrity Time Travelers
What’s the number one rule of time travel? Don’t ever let anyone take your picture! How many times do we have to go over this? Not taking the proper precautions during your impromptu time voyages could easily create a time paradox, the result of which could cause a chain reaction that would unravel the very …
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Fans Create A Virtual Jurassic Park
All this talk about genetic engineering and cloning has got me thinking about Jurassic Park. And what do you know? A group of fans are hard at work on a new game (well, a Half-Life 2 mod) called Jurassic Life, rendering Isla Nublar in Valve’s Source Engine. You can see their progress in the above video. …
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Woman Sought To Be Surrogate For Neanderthal Clone
Geneticist George Church wants to clone a Neanderthal. It’s not an easy process, and we’re not quite there yet (maybe within 50 years). But that isn’t stopping him from getting the word out. Namely, he’s looking for an “adventurous female human” to act as the cloned Neanderthal’s surrogate mother. Any takers?
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Cloning And Immortality
To some, cloning seems like one of our best hopes for immortality. The ability to create new copies of ourselves, to start over in a fresh body. But would it really be that simple? Even if we had the technology to create perfect human clones, and to transfer our memories into them, cloning for immortality …
Tupac Shakur “Hologram” Stuns Audience At Coachella
My first reaction to the Tupac hologram was, “Well, that’s creepy.” Maybe it’s because I have this Frankenstein-esque fear of someday waking up in a robot body or with my brain in a jar, or because I’m concerned about what it will ultimately mean to be human. Of course, this Tupac thing, it’s just an …
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