Peter Thiel gave $100,000 to the scientists trying to resurrect the woolly mammoth

Fred Prouser / Reuters Woolly mammoths could be coming to a park near you sometime before 2027, thanks to fundingfromPayPal founder and tech luminary Peter Thiel. That's according toa new book by Ben Mezrich called "Woolly: The True Story of the Quest to Revive one of History’s Most Iconic Extinct Creatures." As theMIT Tech Reviewreported, Thiel made a quiet donation of$100,000 to a de-extinction organization called"Revive & Restore" in 2015. The project to revive woolly mammoths has been goin...