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Who says there’s no good news? Recently scientists claimed they are on the verge of bringing the woolly mammoth back from extinction! These large, hairy, elephant-like creatures were said to have gone extinct, along with mastodons, ground sloths, dire wolves and a host of other prehistoric monsters called “Pleistocene megafauna,” somewhere between 10,000 and 15,000 years ago.
Andrew Matthews/PA Images/Getty Images A life-size woolly mammoth is on display at The Box Museum in Plymouth, UK. Sign up for CNN's Wonder Theory
'My Octopus Teacher' co-director James Reed will exec produce a docuseries about "de-extinction" company Colossal Biosciences.
Ask why, exactly, we need to bring woolly mammoths back to life after 4,000 years, and the answers become numerous and hideously predictable.
