A mammoth comeback.

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Though the stuffed specimens in natural history museums aren't likely to burst into Life again, they may contain ancient DNA that can be decoded by the latest DNA-sequencing machines. Some scientists are saying that a Living mammoth--an Ice Age relative of the elephant first hunted by humans in Siberia 22,000 years ago--could perhaps be regenerated for as little as $10 million. The same technology could theoretically be applied to any other extinct species, including Neanderthals, from which one can obtain hair, horn, fur, or feathers, and which became extinct within the Last 60,000 years, which is the age Limit for DNA. Scientists at Pennsylvania State University...