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Sure, everyone wants their own pet T-Rex!

Though remember, they may be cute when they're babies, but once they start to get too big, you can't just flush them down the toilet like a New York City alligator myth. LOLz!

All jokes aside, just because we have the ability to do something, does it mean we should??

When it comes to extinct species, if we can get our hands on a sample of their DNA, there's a good chance we'd be able to bring them back.

Ethically though, is that something we should do?

Sure, they once lived on this planet, but their era has long since passed.

But we want a pet wooly mammoth!!

Check out the video (above) to hear a scientist argue for and against extinct species resurrection!

Tags: cloning, dinosaur, ethics, extinct, resurrect, science, species, wooly mammoth

Sad…one of the most controversial innovators in science has passed away.

Keith Campbell has died at the age of 58, although the cause of death was not released by the biologist's employer, Nottingham University.

Campbell began researching animal cloning in 1991 and his experiments led to the birth of Dolly, a sheep clone named after Dolly Parton.

After Dolly, the biologist continues his research as a professor at Nottingham University and successfully cloned pigs and lambs.

R.I.P.

Tags: cloning, death, dolly, keith campbell, research, sad, science, sheep

DINOSAURS ARE COMING BACK PEOPLE! JURASSIC PARK ALERT!

Either that, or even more giant elephants…

A strawberry-blond (yep, strawberry blond!) woolly mammoth was discovered preserved in ice in Siberia.

Researchers state they found

Tags: cloning, dinosaurs, discovery, ice age, living cells, prehistoric, science, woolly mammoth

Last time we left you with the Otto family, we told you that they dropped 155,000 Monopoly dollars in an auction to bring their dead pooch back.

Now, Sir Lancelot Version 2.0 is back in action and the family is ASTOUNDED by the similarities he shares with his predecessor.

Nina Otto says the following about her reborn pup

Tags: cloning, crazy, dog, i cloned my pet, science, sir lancelot, television

ZOMBIE DOG!!!! Ok, just a cloned dog…LOLz!

TLC's I Cloned My Pet is letting distraught owners recreate their lost pooches and kitties.

Take the owners of Sir Lancelot for example…

Tags: cloning, crazy, dog, i cloned my pet, science, sir lancelot, television, tlc

And cue the Jurassic Park theme song!

Scientists in Russia and South Korea are going to join forces to bring back the woolly mammoth!

So amazing.

A russian team has joined with South Korea's stem cell superstar, Hwang Woo-Suk to resurrect

Tags: amazing, cloning, global warming, research, russia, scientists, south korea, wooly mammoth

The woolly mammoth is back, baby!

Well, it might be 6 years for now, at least.

A team of scientists from Japan, Russia and the United States hope to clone a mammoth, a symbol of Earth’s ice age that ended 12,000 years ago, and produce a baby mammoth within six years!

That's awesome!

The scientists will extract DNA from a mammoth carcass that has been preserved in a Russian laboratory and insert it into the egg cells of an African elephant in hopes of producing a mammoth embryo.

The team is led by Akira Iritani, a professor emeritus at Kyoto University in Japan, who has devised a technique to extract egg nuclei without damaging them, based off of research that allowed a mouse that was frozen for 16 years to be cloned.

Iritani said of the experiment:

"If a cloned embryo can be created, we need to discuss, before transplanting it into the womb, how to breed [the mammoth] and whether to display it to the public. After the mammoth is born, we'll examine its ecology and genes to study why the species became extinct and other factors."

We are so excited to see this thing and are keeping our fingers crossed them the procedure works and is displayed to the public.

What do U think? Are U as excited as us to see a real, live woolly mammoth?

[Image via AP Images.]

Tags: africa, cloning, elephant, extinct, japan, mouse, research, scientists, species