CNN Fareed Zakaria GPS July 26, 2015 17:48:00
Island off the coast of siberia called wrangel island. scientists including our group, have been able to extract high quality dna from these preserved bones of things like mammoths and mastodons. >> so what can we do? >> so the technology to bring an extinct species back to life is very much in its infancy. what we can do now is extract dna from bones and piece together genome sequences. in the case of a mammoth we could compare that genome to the genome sequence of the closest living relative which is the asian elephant. they differ by only 1%. with an asian elephant we already have a 99% mam...