De-extinction. It’s not a word many of us were thinking about just a decade ago, but it’s one that we’re getting ever more familiar with. The de-extinction company Colossal Biosciences has set its sights on de-extincting five key species whose extinction is thought to have either been caused, or heavily contributed to, by humans: the woolly mammoth, thylacine, dodo, moa, and dire wolf. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

By their definition of “functional de-extinction,” they’ve already brought back the dire wolf , and have set a goal to see a living, breathing mammoth by 2028, but what do they mean by de-extinction, and what can it realistically achieve?

In this episode of The Big Questions , host Rachael Funnell goes

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