Woolly Mammoth de-extinction project underway in Dallas

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Woolly Mammoth de-extinction project underway in Dallas

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In a historic building in Deep Ellum, a colossal effort is underway to bring some of the most famously extinct animals back to life.

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Not too mention, de-extincting something that is from a much colder point of history while we are heating up the planet.

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