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Cloning the Woolly Mammoth
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Cloning the Woolly Mammoth

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South Korean scientists at the Sooam Biotech lab are trying to bring back the woolly mammoth, using flesh recovered from carcasses buried in the Siberian permafrost for tens of thousands of years. The film follows that supply chain from end to end, traveling to Seoul, where pet cloning is already a $100,000 business, then to Yakutsk and Moscow to meet the Siberian tusk hunters whose search for ivory in the melting tundra doubles as fieldwork for the mammoth project, supplying the tissue samples researchers hope contain a viable cell. Sooam's director, Dr. Jeong Yeon Woo, lays out the plan on camera: extract a living cell from a mammoth's remains, implant it in an Asian elephant, and see what is born. The film sits with the discomfort in that plan as much as the science, tracing how a warming Arctic is uncovering the very specimens that make the experiment possible, and how profit, curiosity, and half-formed ethics are pushing an extinct species toward a return nobody has fully thought through.