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Old 08-25-2015, 12:59 PM   #1
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Pleistocene Park

Jurassic Park the novel came out in 1990 and was thoroughly fake. The story revolved around a theme park intended to entertain.

Two years earlier in 1988, a real-life nature preserve was opened in northern Siberia called Pleistocene Park, dedicated to scientific research on the ecological impact of the last Ice Age and what that knowledge could teach us about global warming.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene_Park

Of course, remaking the world as it was 12,000 years ago is certainly a lot easier than 65 million years ago as in the case of Jurassic Park, but the fact that the park is real and still developing makes it far more fascinating.

No extinct animals roam the park yet, but there are definitely (if hopeful) plans to want to reintroduce elephant-like creatures to the park. Either Asian elephants, hybrids with cold adaptations, or a fully resurrected woolly mammoth. The park is a super long term project so I might be lucky to see something like this when I'm 80, but it'll be something to keep track of every decade or so.

Here's the original article, published in Science, from the founder:

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/308/5723/796.1.full
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