Resurrecting the Extinct

Published: March 30, 2011, 7 a.m.

b'Plenty of people have hypothesized about being able to bring back an extinct animal, but (so far as the MonsterTalk team knows) the only person who has successfully brought an extinct animal\\u2019s gene back to be able to express itself in a living organism is Dr. Andrew Pask and his team of genetics experts. Tasmania\\u2019s marsupial tiger, the Thylacine, appears to be extinct. But today MonsterTalk interviews Dr. Pask about his experiments, the best chances of resurrecting dead species, and what makes the Thylacine so interesting to evolutionary science.\\nREAD full episode notes\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'