Big Picture Science – Monster Mashup: Ben Novak / De-Extinction

by Gary Niederhoff on April 12, 2015

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Ben Novak / De-Extinction
Part 4 of Skeptic Check: Monster Mashup, featuring Ben Novak, visiting biologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and lead coordinating scientist of “The Great Comeback” at the Revive and Restore project at the Long Now Foundation, on the possibility of bringing back extinct species like the passenger pigeon.

Tagged as: biology, extinct, ornithology

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