“De-Extinction” Project: Is This The Beginning Of A Real Life Jurassic Park?

Some extremely smart people (the “Revive & Restore Initiative “) are starting a new project called “De-Extinction”. There’s a big conference and TED “talk” happening tomorrow at The National Geographic headquarters in Washington, D.C., to which you may tune in here.

What will they be talking about exactly?

…”Revive & Restore, with the support of TED and in partnership with National Geographic Society, is convening a day-long conference to showcase the prospects of bringing extinct species back to life, along with a discussion of the ethical issues that will raise…”

Yes, you read that correctly: “the prospects of bringing extinct species back to life.”

More background , and : Which species would you like to see revived? (The Tasmanian tiger, the California condor, the woolly mammoth…? Revive & Restore are already hard at work on the North American passenger pigeon which was last seen alive almost a century ago.)