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We Can “Bring Back” The Woolly Mammoth. Should We?

Season 4 Episode 32 | 6m 40s

In the quest to understand how evolution basically built the woolly mammoth, we may have found the blueprints for building them ourselves.

Aired: 06/07/22
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