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Thursday, March 17, 2022

Can We Resurrect Extinct Species? Scientists Put Jurassic Park to the Test [SingularityHub, March 2022]

Title:
Can we resurrect extinct species? Scientists put Jurassic Park to the test

Author:
Shelly Fan

Published:
SingularityHub, 16 March 2022

From the article:
De-extinction grabbed our imagination in the 90s with Jurassic Park. Scientists have since asked: how possible is it?  
 
According to a new study, nearly impossible. But wait—it’s not all bad news. While bringing back a faithful copy of an extinct species may be impossible, we could bring back a hybrid species that’s a genetic mix between an extinct species and its modern descendant.