Back up plan: Fruit. Not sure how that works. Have a look:
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There is some interesting new research out on the Asian Fruit Fly, Drosophila suzukii.
First, I want to say that tomatoes are a fruit. Here is a scientific definition of fruit:
Fruit noun, plural: fruits
(1) (botany) The seed-bearing structure in angiosperms formed from the ovary after flowering.
A True Fruit Fly - Tephritidae
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Then what? Is this just proof of concept? They can't exactly be releasing mammoths back into the wild. Even if they did there'd be wingnuts, red-necks, and poachers behind every tundra hummock waiting for a chance to get a trophy.
Even if they had to be kept in zoos, this would be very interesting. It probably won't work, but it'd be a big deal if it did.
If someone succeeded in cloning a mammoth I would probably wet my pants with excitement.
If someone cloned a dinosaur I would just die of happiness.