Would the Woolly Mammoth or the Tasmanian Tiger be happy in the 21st Century?



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Whatsapp The last Tasmanian Tiger was hunted to extinction in the early 1900s

As the population of Homo sapiens goes gangbusters, other species are saying sayonara, for good.

But what about bringing extinct animals back from the dead - can we, could we, and should we?

And why is biologist Ben Novak trying to resurrect an extinct pigeon?

This Science Friction Live event was hosted and recorded in partnership with the Melbourne Museum

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Whatsapp The last Passenger pigeon died in 1914. They were hunted to extinction

GUESTS

Dr Christy Hipsley

Evolutionary biologist and vertebrate paleontologist

Museums Victoria and University of Melbourne

Ben Novak

PhD researcher, Monash University

De-extinction biologist with Revive and Restore

Professor Euan Ritchie

Associate Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation

Centre for Integrative Ecology

Deakin University

FURTHER INFO:

De-Extinction

Ben J Novak

Genes, 13 November 2018

The Perils of De-extinction

Ben A. Minteer

Minding Nature, January 2015

What if Extinction is Not Forever?

Jacob Sherkow and Henry Greely

Science, 5 April 2013, Vol 340

Spending limited resources on de-extinction could lead to net biodiversity loss

Nature Ecology and Evolution; volume 1 (2017)

Genome of the Tasmanian Tiger provides insights into the evolution and demography of an extinct marsupial carnivore

Nature Ecology & Evolution; volume 2 (2018)

The Re-Origin of Species

Torill Kornfeldt

Scribe, 2018

Producers: Natasha Mitchell and Maria Tickle

Sound: Tim Symonds and Richard Girvan