7 Useful Genetic Experiments That Are Creepy As Hell. Reviving Extinct Animals Bringing back prehistoric animals has been a trope in science fiction for a very, very long time.
So far, none of these efforts have come to fruition. Scientists have been trying to clone the wooly mammoth for over 10 years, and despite continuous reassurance that we're on the brink of a major breakthrough, no one's pulled it off yet. The only prehistoric creatures we've successfully revived is bacteria -- and even they weren't really dead, just suspended inside a salt crystal or in the stomach of a fossilized bee.
This is the scientific equivalent of winning a bag of Skittles in the lottery. Still, though. Most recently, a scientist announced his intention to reverse-engineer a dinosaur from a modern chicken by systematically removing DNA, because that makes nothing but sense. Otherwise known as "the saddest Sean Connery-related moment of our childhood. " 5 Ham-Fisted Religious Websites. The Evangel Cathedral website has an introduction animation with a "Skip Intro" option, but I'm fairly confident that no one has ever used it in the history of the site's existence.
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We like to mark-up natural disasters to everything from The Weather Channel to a large, invisible bearded man who hangs out on clouds and doesn't wear pants (the ghost of Ernest Hemingway).
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