Yesterday, Lonesome George passed away. George was a Pinta Island tortoise (or Chelonoidis nigra abingdoni). Lonesome George was a well-known, powerful international symbol for conservation. But now, with the passing of George, his subspecies has gone extinct. So, farewell to Lonesome George, the last of his kind. Or was he? In 2007, DNA analysis of […]
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Jurassic Park. There, with that obvious reference out of the way, we can get started. Can we actually revive organisms (focusing on animals here) that have gone extinct? How? And how far away is it? These are the questions that form the backbone of a recent review article. After a brief historical introduction, some new […]
