Gap Fill - Woolly Mammoths - Level 2

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Scientists want to bring back the woolly mammoth - an of the elephant. It became 4,000 years ago. The idea to bring it back to is like something from the movie Jurassic Park. Scientists will use the from mammoth to clone the animal. It would be the first since the Ice Age for a mammoth to walk on the earth. The lead scientist is a from Harvard. He is an in editing DNA and genes. Ben Lamm, a businessman working on the project, said: "Our is to have our first calves in the next four to six years."

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