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Georg Wilhelm Steller oversees the dissection of a sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas) on the Commander Islands, c.1741Watercolour & gouache
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Very busy not painting animals. It's all under control though. Soon I will return. And it will be glorious.
There will be seriemas!
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Nice. Although, will cloning of sea cows ever become a reality?
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Nope, they wont. They're fone forever
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Right......I just wished, I guess....
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Haven't a clue. If I was a make an uneducated guess, I'd say we probably don't have enough material to sequence their genome. Also, I doubt we could find an animal large enough and closely related enough to implant the embryo into...
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