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'Closer than people think': Woolly mammoth 'de-extinction' is nearing reality — and we have no idea what happens next(www.livescience.com)

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They’ll be wearing stylish pool noodles on the tusks to minimize furniture and gonad damage.

Or we create them with softer tusks. Maybe that’s better, the. They’ll also be worthless to poachers.

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I don’t want to live in a world that has wooly mammoths with floppy tusks. It just seems wrong.

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Of course it seems wrong when you say it like that.

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