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@ Gina Intheburg 🇺🇦 🌻 🥥🌴
2025-03-05 20:00:54
Hoping to revive woolly mammoths, scientists start with 'woolly mice'
Why? Why revive the woolly mammoth - or any extinct species? "De-extinction" to restore ecosystems? A bit - no, a lot like playing god, no?
What's next? Saber tooth tigers?
It's like the A-bomb: both unintended consequences plus you know someone (Musk?) is gonna do something demented like that w/the #tech.
Sometimes #science (or some #scientists) do too much mathing, not enough living just life.
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/03/04/nx-s1-5299962/woolly-mammoth-extinction-mice-genetic-engineering