by rss feed | Feb 12, 2025 | Beth Shapiro, De-extinction, mammoth de-extinction, News Feeds, woolly dogs
I first learned about woolly dogs when researching woolly mammoth de-extinction. It turns out that there are or were many woolly creatures besides sheep. If you have to de-extinct something, I say let’s try to bring back the woolly dog and forget the mammoths....
by rss feed | Feb 2, 2025 | Beth Shapiro, De-extinction, de-extinction of dodos, News Feeds, weekly reads
Biologist and ancient DNA expert Beth Shapiro is becoming more well known for doing de-extinction research. Yet Shapiro used to be a de-extinction skeptic. Ten years ago she wrote “How to Clone a Mammoth.” In the book she mentioned serious challenges related to...
