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"If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science fiction."
- Frederik Pohl
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| Mammontelephas | ||
| A 'mammoth' resurrected from the genes of the original. |
| Baby's brow fur was long and oily, and gave off a pungent, tangy, yet somehow pleasant odor. The worldwide network of genetic arks had a surfeit of pachyderms, even this new breed - "Mammontelephas" - with half of its genes salvaged from a 20,000-year-old cadaver exposed by the retreating Canadian tundra. |
| Technovelgy from Earth,
by David Brin. Published by Bantam in 1990 Additional resources -
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Take a look at this real-life use of this strategy; will there be a 'Pleistocene Park' For Woolly Mammoths?.
These beasties may remind you a little of the alien Fithp from Footfall by Niven and Pournelle.
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- Woolly Mammoths To Be Created For 'Pleistocene Park'?
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| Machete-Wielding Philodendron Isn't Going To Take It Anymore |
| Tsunami Forecasts Improved By Ionosphere Signals |
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