Long-extinct creatures like the dodo and woolly mammoth could be brought back to life thanks to scientific advances

By Fiona Macrae

It has long been synonymous with death. But the dodo could live again, along with other long-extinct creatures from the fearsome sabre-toothed tiger to the lumbering Neanderthal. Other beasts of yesteryear ripe for resurrection include the Tasmanian tiger, the woolly rhinoceros and the glyptodon - a VW Beetle-sized armadillo which last roamed the Earth 11,000 years ago.

Ripe for resurrection: The New Scientist claims bringing back the woolly mammoth is now a possibility, with a modern-day elephant being a suitable surrogate mother

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