No, says the study's co-author, Professor Alan Cooper, director of the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA at the University of Adelaide. "This is not going to bring the species back to life. We've only done this with one protein."
"It is the same as if we went back 30,000 years and stuck a needle into a living mammoth," says Professor Cooper.
"This is true palaeobiology, as we can study and measure how these animals functioned as if they were alive today."
From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by Marilyn Terrell.
Really? I have an urge to chase it off of a cliff, where spear-throwers are waiting below.