• yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      I mean, they’re probably destroying a lot of Siberian ice to do this, so it might even have the same ecological impact as something like mining, I think

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        Just in general, mammoth fossils hold a lot of information that could tell us about the history of the local environment of those areas or new insights into the creatures’ lives as well. Also it’s not like more of this finite resource is still being produced or anything.