Bringing Animals Back from the Dead

Wednesday, 10 July 2013 | by Pat's Picks

Could passenger pigeons be brought back from the dead? The Washington Post says that’s the plan of a young biologist who is taking a page from the “Jurassic Park” playbook. His idea is to use passenger pigeon DNA taken from museums and “fill in the blanks” with the pieces from a common pigeon. The passenger pigeon, which went extinct in 1914, could be a common sight in less than a year if all goes well.

SOURCE: Washington Post