New Delhi, June 11 -- This could well be the new century of the woolly mammoth, the most iconic of our extinct species, which is set to make an epic return to our world. The hairy, spiral-tusked humongous beasts that once ranged across the icy northern hemisphere and even parts of South America some half a million years ago will be soon found wandering in Siberia, we are told. True, Steven Spielberg brought the dinosaur back and firmly planted it in our consciousness with his blockbuster film. Jurassic Park was pure fantasy; the woolly mammoth, however, is for real. The colossal ancestor of the elephant will be brought back from extinction, in some form, and released in select places, according to US journals and academic researchers.

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