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No, the dire wolf has not been brought back from extinction (www.newscientist.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean you can still hold onto them. Maybe someday we'll get lucky and find a perfectly preserved, freshly fed mosquito, and then BAM! Dino DNA.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Nope, dna has a half-life, sorry!