# The Strange Science Of Whether We Could Clone A Neanderthal

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/the-strange-science-of-whether-we-could-clone-a-neanderthal/
- Published: 2026-07-14T09:45:00-05:00
- Author: Curated by John Wysocki

Photo: Model of Homo neanderthalensis child in The Natural History Museum, Vienna – July 30, 2021. Photo credit: Jakub Hałun via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0 (photo was resized). Article by Benjamin Taub. IFLScience – July 9, 2026.  Back in 2012, the famous geneticist George Church wrote that it may be feasible to clone a Neanderthal, provided an “extremely adventurous female human” agreed to act as a surrogate mother. Since then, Church and his colleagues at Colossal Biosciences have been busy working out how to de-extinct other Ice Age creatures like the woolly mammoth. But could they really bring back our long-lost relatives? […] Click here to view original web page at www.iflscience.com