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Thursday 8 January 2009

The beasts we could raise from the dead

They don't sound like a terribly appealing bunch - a dodo, a sabre-toothed tiger, a woolly mammoth and a lumbering armadillo the size of a car. But they are top of a list of animals that scientists would like to bring back from extinction.

Other beasts on the resurrection wish-list include one of our ancient relatives, Neanderthal man, as well as the woolly rhinoceros and the Tasmanian tiger - a fierce marsupial that looked rather like a large, striped dog.

Experts say it may only be a matter of time before all these animals could be brought back from the dead. After all, 50 years ago the notion of cloned animals such as Dolly the sheep would have seemed impossible. The top ten most desirable creatures to bring back from the dead was compiled by New Scientist magazine.

Source: Daily Mail