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This may not bode well...Colossal, a US firm that is aiming to revive lost species such as the woolly mammoth, says it now has a near-complete genome of the extinct thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger). https://www.newscientist.com/article/2452196-de-extinction-company-claims-it-has-nearly-complete-thylacine-genome/#Echobox=1729356135
@Victor What can go wrong?
@Victor Why do I hear trumpets and keep seeing a remote tropical island???
@Victor I worry about this, not because I'm specifically scared of resurrecting recently extinct species that were wiped out by humans. (dodos, thylacines, passenger pigeons...)
I'm worried because we still don't appreciate the role of epigenetics and its role in the development of embryos into fully mature creatures. There's also a second genome we need to resurrect, which is the mitochondrial DNA.
I hope they solve those problems, because we may need this tech to recover from climate change.