PLAY PODCASTS
How can we bring extinct species back from the dead?
Episode 14

How can we bring extinct species back from the dead?

A new “Jurassic Park” movie is coming out next year, the latest installment of…

Seeking A Scientist · Kate The Chemist, Suzanne Hogan

September 25, 202438m 36s

Audio is streamed directly from the publisher (dovetail.prxu.org) as published in their RSS feed. Play Podcasts does not host this file. Rights-holders can request removal through the copyright & takedown page.

Show Notes

A new “Jurassic Park” movie is coming out next year, the latest installment of the blockbuster series all about the dangerous hubris in trying to bring dinosaurs back from extinction. Paleogeneticist Beth Shapiro says the science may be flawed, but cloning extinct species is more realistic than you may think. In fact, that work is already underway — but with the slightly friendlier woolly mammoth.