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Giant tortoise

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Biologists are using giant tortoise DNA to bring an extinct turtle back from the dead

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Down in the Galapagos, an international team of researchers has found that a living breed of tortoise carries some of the same genes as an extinct type of turtle. Now, scientists are hatching a plan to bring the extinct Darwinian tortoise back to life.

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