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Scientists are working on bringing back the woolly mammoth. The giant is an ancestor of the Asian elephant. It became over 4,000 years ago, but scientists and want to bring it back to life. The idea is like something from the Jurassic Park. Scientists will use the DNA from the of a mammoth found in Siberia to revive the mammoth. They will also use techniques. It would be the first since the Ice Age for a mammoth to walk on the . The lead scientist is professor George Church, a geneticist from Harvard Medical School. He is an in gene editing. An entrepreneur, Ben Lamm, said: "Our goal is to have our calves in the next four to six years."

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