Stewart Brand talks about reviving the passenger pigeon at
TED2013 Bringing back extinct species — this Friday,
TEDxDeExtinction discusses how we’ll do it and whether we should
An endangered species is like a very sick person: It needs help,
desperately. An extinct species is like a dead person: beyond
help, beyond hope Or at least it has been, until now. For the
first time, our own species—the one that has done so much to
condemn those other 795 to oblivion—may be poised to bring at
least some of them back. —National Geographic, “Species Revival:
Should We Bring Back Extinct Animals?” This process, the process
of bringing an extinct species back from once-certain oblivion,
is called de-extinction.As reported on the TED Blog,“The first
de-extinction happened on the bucardo, a type of wild mountain
goat. The last bucardo died out in 2000, but its ear was
preserved, and in 2009 DNA from the ear was planted in a mother
goat. The engineered bucardo died after 10 minutes due to a
defect in its lungs.” But is there