Jurassic Park may have first put the idea of bringing dinosaurs back from the dead into people's heads, but the question of whether we can bring back more recently extinct species is still very much alive and kicking for scientists.

In the latest episode of WIRED's What If series, we look at the three techniques scientists are using today to potentially bring extinct animals back to life - breeding, cloning, and the use of CRISPR-cas9.

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With thanks:

Melanie Challenger, Author and Bioethicist, How to Be Animal: A new history of what it means to be human
Rich Grenyer, Associate Professor in Biodiversity and Biogeography, Official Fellow and Tutor at Jesus College, Oxford
Helen Pilcher, Science writer and author of 'Bring Back the King: The New Science of De-extinction'
Dr Britt Wray, Author and Fellow in Human and Planetary Health at Stanford University and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
The Big Sky: https://www.thebigsky.co.uk/

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