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Retrobreeding the Woolly Mammoth
Technology Review published an article titled "Retrobreeding the Woolly Mammoth" that described an effort by Soviet scientists to insert DNA from woolly mammoths found frozen in Siberian ice into elephant cells. The cells would then be brought to term inside elephant surrogate mothers. The head of the project was said to be Dr. Sverbighooze Yasmilov. Many members of the media believed the report to be real.

April Fool's Day Categories: Animals, Science, Magazines and Journals, United States, 1984
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