# Bring back the woolly mammoth!

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDxDeExtinction
- Speaker: Hendrik Poinar
- Year: 2013
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Biology, Society and politics
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/hendrik_poinar_bring_back_the_woolly_mammoth)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

It’s the dream of kids all around the world to see giant beasts walk the Earth again. Could -- and should -- that dream be realized? Hendrik Poinar talks about the next big thing: the quest to engineer a creature that looks very much like our furry friend, the woolly mammoth. The first step, to sequence the woolly genome, is nearly complete. And it’s huge.

## Lectures

1. [Bring back the woolly mammoth!](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/hendrik_poinar_bring_back_the_woolly_mammoth/518e85fd52f4), 11 min (TED's player)