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Hendrik Poinar

Dutch Scientist

Born: May 31, 1969

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I laughed when Steven Spielberg said that cloning extinct animals was inevitable. But I'm not laughing anymore, at least about mammoths. This is going to happen. It's just a matter of working out the details. Hendrik Poinar

When I was a young boy, I used to gaze through the microscope of my father at the insects in amber that he kept in the house. And they were remarkably well preserved, morphologically just phenomenal. Hendrik Poinar

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There's no environment I can think of that would have remained constant enough to preserve dinosaur DNA. Hendrik Poinar

Think Enough Would Constant Dinosaur Remained Environment Preserve

We know African and Asian elephants can interbreed, and they're separated by 5 million to 6 million years. Hendrik Poinar

Know Years African Asian Separated Elephants Million Million Years

Scientists have always thought that because mammoths roamed such a huge territory - from Western Europe to Central North America - that North American woolly mammoths were a sideshow of no particular significance to the evolution of the species. Hendrik Poinar

It turns out that there are swaths of habitat in the north of Siberia and Yukon that actually could house a mammoth. Remember, this was a highly plastic animal that lived over tremendous climate variation. Hendrik Poinar

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