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Extinct Animals Could Come Back

JURASSIC PARK 4?

Through cloning.

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Southern gastric brooding frog in Queensland, Australia. (Auscape/UIG, via Getty)

This is eerily well timed with the Jurassic Park rerelease. Scientists are making progress in bringing extinct animals back to life through cloning—and have actually brought one back, the Pyrenean ibex, although it lived only for a few minutes.

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