Extra research: Is ‘de-extinction’ really possible? – podcast
The American biotech company Colossal Biosciences recently made headlines around the world with claims it had resurrected the dire wolf, an animal that went extinct at the end of the last ice age. Science correspondent Nicola Davis tells Madeleine Finlay about the process that created these wolves and why some experts have serious ethical questions about bringing back species whose habitats no longer exist