CRYPTOLINK: Bringing Back the Woolly Mammoth

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Science writer Carl Zimmer names the Dodo and the Great Auk, the Thylacine and the Chinese River Dolphin, the Passenger Pigeon and the Imperial Woodpecker, the Bucardo and Stellar Sea Cow among the species that humankind has driven into extinction. Now, what's notable about that list is that most of us would recognize maybe three or four of those names.

But, think about that. 

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