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There are many better candidates, like the Passenger Pigeon or Dodo, which were extincted recently and directly by humans.
by fenwick67 8y ago
There are many better candidates, like the Passenger Pigeon or Dodo, which were extincted recently and directly by humans.
- kevin_thibedeau 8y agoNobody has samples of them preserved by permafrost. The advantage of going for mammoths is the large amount of tissue available to work with that hasn't been desiccated or damaged by chemical preservatives.