Episode 4654: Dark Enigma - The Scientific Pursuit of Animal De-Extinction – Are We Ready For A Real Life Jurassic Park

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Welcome heathens welcome to the world of the weird and unexplained.  I’m your host, Nicole Delacroix and together, we will be investigating stories about the things that go bump in the night, frighteningly imagined creatures, supernatural beings and even some unsolved mysteries but I promise all sorts of weirdness.  So, sit back, grab your favorite drink, and prepare to be transported to today's dark Enigma.... 

And on today’s Dark enigma well, we have another listener suggestion, and a quick reminder, we’re going to revisit some stories, so if you have an encounter you want to share let me know, I got some emails over the weekend that I haven’t had a chance to respond to yet, but I’m working thru them!  So, with that said, we will still be playing our drinking game and as you know, the drinking game is only for those of us that are at home and have nowhere else to go tonight.  The choice of libation, as always my darlings, is yours, so choose your poison accordingly… Alright, now for the game part how about every time I say species that will be a single shot and every time I say extinct, that will be a double shot.  Now that the business end is out of the way we can jump headfirst into today’s dark enigma… so don… your best and sharpest lab coat, and smarty pants glasses as we switch to the cerebral side with today’s offering and The Scientific Pursuit of Animal De-Extinction – Are We Ready For A Real Life Jurassic Park?

It is a sad fact of the world that species are going extinct at a rapid pace, especially in this modern world that humans conquer and exploit day by day. Whether it is due to natural factors, cataclysms, or human activities, some species along with their whole natural heritage and evolutionary legacy are wiped off the face of the earth, gone forever. Or are they? What if we could bring them back, to resurrect these species and allow them to populate the planet and roam the wilderness once again? It is a sci-fi concept that has gained quite a bit of real momentum in recent years, and has been thrust into the public consciousness with the well-known Jurassic Park series of films. 

Could we do really this? Should we? It is a complicated and complex topic to be sure, but there can be no mistake that bringing extinct animals back from the dead, a process called “de-extinction,” is a very real scientific pursuit, and is being researched and carried out with various degrees of success, with some of the animal candidates for these projects long gone and currently residing only within the lost sands of time.