Journalist Torill Kornfeldt travelled the world to meet the scientists
working to bring extinct animals back from the dead. Along the way, she
has seen the mammoth that has been frozen for 20,000 years, and visited
the places where these furry giants will live again.
From the Siberian permafrost to the Californian desert, scientists
across the globe are working to resurrect all kinds of extinct animals,
from ones that just left us to those that have been gone for many
thousands of years. Their tools in this hunt are the fossil record and
cutting edge genetic technologies. Some of these scientists are driven
by sheer curiosity; others view the lost species as a powerful weapon in
the fight to preserve rapidly changing ecosystems. It seems certain that
these animals will walk the earth again, but what world will that give
us? And is any of this a good idea? Science journalist Torill Kornfeldt
travelled the globe to meet the men and women working to bring these
animals back from the dead and answer these questions.