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mitch96

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6. "go all Jurassic park on us?"

Reply to Soph0571 (Reply #5)

Tue Jun 11, 2019, 05:13 PM

Jun 2019

Now that would be a hoot.. Sequence the genes from BIG wolf to a modern wolf or wolf/dog hybrid.. Some scientists were thinking of doing it with wooly mammoth genes into a modern elephant..
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Woolly severed head of a giant Ice Age wolf - nearly TWICE the size of its modern-day descendants... [View all] Soph0571 Jun 2019 OP

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Nice puppy, nice puppy... mitch96 Jun 2019 #4

In tact brain... Soph0571 Jun 2019 #5

"go all Jurassic park on us?" mitch96 Jun 2019 #6

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