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Ben Lamm

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Ben Lamm: The Truth About Jurassic Park & Real De-Extinction | DSH #1586

There was a site, like, you know, like a slot that you see that are like, so moving.

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Ben Lamm: The Truth About Jurassic Park & Real De-Extinction | DSH #1586

Imagine one of those that is like, that can make caves because it's so big and it's got claws that get literally burrow caves.

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Ben Lamm: The Truth About Jurassic Park & Real De-Extinction | DSH #1586

We could walk in and it would literally eat trees because it was as big as a tree.

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Ben Lamm: The Truth About Jurassic Park & Real De-Extinction | DSH #1586

There's this thing called the glyptodon, which is if you take like an armadillo and make it the size of a Volkswagen beetle, that was awesome.

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Ben Lamm: The Truth About Jurassic Park & Real De-Extinction | DSH #1586

Um, and, and we have DNA for it, which is crazy.

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Ben Lamm: The Truth About Jurassic Park & Real De-Extinction | DSH #1586

Um,

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Ben Lamm: The Truth About Jurassic Park & Real De-Extinction | DSH #1586

One of my favorites is the stellar sea cow.

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Ben Lamm: The Truth About Jurassic Park & Real De-Extinction | DSH #1586

It's actually really sad.

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Ben Lamm: The Truth About Jurassic Park & Real De-Extinction | DSH #1586

It was a species that the stellar sea cow was about.

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Ben Lamm: The Truth About Jurassic Park & Real De-Extinction | DSH #1586

Think of like a manatee or dugong that's the size bigger than a whale.

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Ben Lamm: The Truth About Jurassic Park & Real De-Extinction | DSH #1586

Slow moving, super nice.

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Ben Lamm: The Truth About Jurassic Park & Real De-Extinction | DSH #1586

And it's one of those sad stories that it was like eradicated within like 30 or 60 years of ever being discovered.

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Ben Lamm: The Truth About Jurassic Park & Real De-Extinction | DSH #1586

Because guess what?

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Ben Lamm: The Truth About Jurassic Park & Real De-Extinction | DSH #1586

It's like big, slow-moving target, lots of blubber and fat, feeds colonies of people.

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Ben Lamm: The Truth About Jurassic Park & Real De-Extinction | DSH #1586

So that's cool.

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Ben Lamm: The Truth About Jurassic Park & Real De-Extinction | DSH #1586

Oh, there's also a giant beaver in America.

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Ben Lamm: The Truth About Jurassic Park & Real De-Extinction | DSH #1586

Beaver?

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Ben Lamm: The Truth About Jurassic Park & Real De-Extinction | DSH #1586

There's a giant beaver, which I think may be the silliest species, unless you turn it into some weird sci-fi horror movie.

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Ben Lamm: The Truth About Jurassic Park & Real De-Extinction | DSH #1586

So they were making some big dams.

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Ben Lamm: The Truth About Jurassic Park & Real De-Extinction | DSH #1586

Exactly.