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Extinct animals could be brought back to life thanks to advances in DNA technology

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The idea of resurrecting extinct animals moved a step closer to reality last year when scientists announced that they had decoded almost all of the genome of the woolly mammoth, from 60,000-year-old remains found frozen in Siberia. Now New Scientist magazine has named the 10 other beasts most likely to rise again, including the Irish elk deer whose antlers measured 12 feet across, the dodo and Neanderthal man.

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DNA Research by Allan Wayne on Thursday, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:39:37 PM
Doesn't work by Lindiana on Friday, Jan 9, 2009 at 7:27:13 PM
Repaired link... by Amanda Lang on Friday, Jan 9, 2009 at 7:53:09 PM
Let's start with the Desert Rat and Bubonic flea by Patrick Lafferty on Monday, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:10:17 AM