De-Extinction: Rebuilding Nature or Playing with Fire?

Holocene Extinction Episode 6: De-Extinction Colossal Biosciences is currently the leading front in resurrecting extinct species, with iconic names like the woolly mammoth, the Tasmanian tiger or thylacine, and the dodo in their roster. Totalling in $225M dollars in funding, Colossal will employ cutting edge genome editing technologies to bring back extinct animals and reintroduce them to their old habitats. In the last decade, the advancements in genome sequencing have shifted the question about de-extinction from “can we?“ to “should we?“. Can bringing back extinct animals help us fix the mistakes we made in the past? Or will it instead become yet another blunder, an act of carelessness and ignorance, that serves none other than our personal gain in the cost of nature? Sources and credits: Holocene Extinction Series: