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Description: Scientists in the U.S. have discovered the genetic code of the woolly mammoth, an animal that's been extinct since the Ice Age. It's led to fevered speculation that there might one day be hope of reviving it.Researchers who bought mammoth hair on the internet have decoded 70% of the creature's genome, marking the first time the nearly complete genome of an extinct animal has been sequenced.