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Mammoth DNA Briefly 'Woke Up' Inside Mouse Eggs. But Cloning Mammoths Is Still a Pipe Dream.
By Laura Geggel published
A handful of 28,0000-year-old woolly mammoth cell parts were recently "woken up" for a short time in a new experiment, but cloning the ice age beasts is still a long way off.

This Plan to Bring Back an Extinct Ice-Age Horse Species Is an Extreme Long Shot, Scientists Say
By Mindy Weisberger published
Will a 40,000-year-old mummified horse revive an ice-age species?

Toenail Fungus's Nonexistent Sex Life Is More Interesting Than You Think
By Rachael Rettner published
Toenail fungus is not sexy, and the microbes that cause the infection appear to agree.

Monkeys Have Been Cloned, Paving the Way for Human Cloning
By Stephanie Pappas published
For the first time, scientists have cloned non-human primates.

Attack of the (Adorable) Clones: Puppies Are 'Reclones' of First Cloned Dog
By Mindy Weisberger published
Meet the puppies that were cloned from the world's first cloned dog.

Mammoth resurrection: 11 hurdles to bringing back an ice age beast
By Laura Geggel published
The road to bringing back the mammoth — a giant that went extinct at the end of the last ice age — is filled with barriers.

Should a 'Resurrected' Dodo or Mammoth Get a New Name?
By Laura Geggel published
If scientists could resurrect extinct animals — such as the dodo, Columbian mammoth or Tasmanian tiger — should these animals have different names that distinguish them from the original species?

8 Mammals That Have Been Cloned Since Dolly the Sheep
By Stephanie Bucklin published
It was 20 years ago this week that scientists announced the first successful cloning of a mammal — the now-famous sheep Dolly.
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