The session (and the times) have sparked a wave of related stories. I was just putting together a list of my own to send when I found this list at the top of Ed Yong's "Missing Links" for this week. No better place to start. Here's Ed:
All the buzz this week is about de-extinction – bringing extinct species back from the dead. Start with Carl Zimmer’s great story for National Geographic. And here’s more:
- De-extinction: “less about the species themselves & more about us.” Hannah Waters on the narcissism of resurrection
- A blow-by-blow guide to impregnating an elephant
- Carl again on scientists who are trying to resurrect America’s chestnut forests, & what we mean by “natural.”
- A well-argued counterpoint against de-extinction–bringing back extinct species–by Stuart Pimm. And a very balanced piece from Brian Switek on what resurrections mean for ecology.
- Great Wired longread on plans to bring the iconic passenger pigeon back from extinction
But, typically, Ed didn't include any of his own related pieces, so here are a couple:
A piece "resurrected" itself from last year, when it was written, "Will we ever bring back the woolly mammoth?"
And, just posted, on resurrecting and cloning a gastric brooding frog, a frog that swallows her own eggs, stops making acid in her stomach so that they can survive, even as they grow and collapse her lungs so that she has to breathe through her skin until she "propulsively vomits" them into the world as little froglets: "Resurrecting the Extinct Frog with a Stomach for a Womb"
