Palaeontologist Michael Archer wants to use DNA to bring back recently extinct species.

Mike is a palaeontologist who has discovered the remains of all kinds of weird animals from Australia's distant past.

He's dug up the fossilised remains of a platypus with teeth, a carnivorous kangaroo and a crocodile that climbed trees and dropped onto its prey.

Now he wants to use DNA technology to bring back recently extinct species like the Thylacine and the Gastric Brooding Frog.

Mike is a professor and Head of Evolution of Earth & Life Systems Reseach Group at the University of New South Wales.

Further information

Rebecca Skloot's interview, about research into growing human cells.

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