De-Extinction: The Real Jurassic Park Is Closer Than You Think

Is the world ready for the return of the dinosaurs?

Biotech companies are celebrating milestones in de-extinction projects, and cutting-edge tools like gene editing are opening up possibilities that, not so long ago, were beyond our wildest dreams.

The Jurassic Park movies have been stoking imagination, adrenaline, and adventure for 90 years—and this summer, dinosaurs returned to the silver screen.

How much did the movies get right? Could we really meet a Woolly mammoth one day soon? And if we did—how would animals that thrived so far in the past fit into today’s world? Or could they?

In this episode, enter the Codex Legendarium for a closer look at: NASA's Most accurate sci-fi movies, T-rex biology, the realism of Jurassic Park, Velociraptors vs. Deinonychus, Blue and Beta, dinosaurs with feathers, Jurassic vs. Cretaceous periods, Paleontology, dinosaur DNA, DNA degradation, the mosquito in amber, Dr. Henry Wu and his theories, the woolly mammoth de-extinction project, the dire wolf, Colossal bioscience, Moas, Tasmanian Tigers, the Dodo bird, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World, Mount Roraima, sauropods, the Mokele-mbembe, CRISPR gene editing, and the D-rex.

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