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b'Monsters don\\u2019t exist. Except when they do. And extinction is forever, except when it isn\\u2019t. So, which animals are mythical and which are in hiding?\\nBigfoot sightings are plentiful, but real evidence for the hirsute creature is a big zilch. Yet, the coelacanth, a predatory fish thought extinct, actually lives. Today, its genome is offering clues as to how and when our fishy ancestors first flopped onto land.\\nMeanwhile, the ivory-billed woodpecker assumes mythic status as it flutters between existence and extinction. And, from passenger pigeons to the wooly mammoth, hi-tech genetics may imitate Jurassic Park, and bring back vanished animals.\\nGuests:\\n\\u2022\\xa0\\xa0Donald Prothero \\u2013 Paleontologist, geologist, former professor at Occidental College, co-author of Abominable Science!: Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids\\n\\u2022\\xa0\\xa0Chris Amemiya \\u2013 Biologist and geneticist at the University of Washington and the Benaroya Research Institute, Seattle\\n\\u2022\\xa0\\xa0John Fitzpatrick \\u2013 Ornithologist and director, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University\\n\\u2022\\xa0\\xa0Ben Novak \\u2013 Visiting biologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, lead coordinating scientist of \\u201cThe Great Comeback\\u201d at the Revive and Restore project, Long Now Foundation\\n\\xa0\\nFirst released December 9, 2013.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'