How Missouri Botanical Garden hopes to bring extinct plants back from the dead

[UngulateNerd92]

Conservationists are working against the clock to save endangered species of plants and animals — after all, once a species goes extinct, there is no turning back. Or is there? Can scientists turn back time and bring new life to a globally extinct species?

Missouri Botanical Garden conservation scientist Matthew Albrecht and herbarium director Jordan Teisher are attempting to do exactly that.

On Monday’s St. Louis on the Air, the two scientists shared what is at stake in the global “de-extinction” effort and what part the botanical garden has in the experiment.

How Missouri Botanical Garden hopes to bring extinct plants back from the dead

 

[ifesbob]

Reminds me of the efforts to de-extinct gastric brooding frogs.

 

[UngulateNerd92]

Reminds me of the efforts to de-extinct gastric brooding frogs.

Interesting comparison, can you explain the exact resemblance you see?

 

[ifesbob]

Interesting comparison, can you explain the exact resemblance you see?

I just recently watched a video about gastric brooding frogs and it mentioned that people are trying to de-extinct them (with no success, at least of the time of the video posting), so hearing about another de-extinction effort shortly after that reminded me of it. It's really just the "de-extinction" part.

 

[UngulateNerd92]

I just recently watched a video about gastric brooding frogs and it mentioned that people are trying to de-extinct them (with no success, at least of the time of the video posting), so hearing about another de-extinction effort shortly after that reminded me of it. It's really just the "de-extinction" part.

Oh yes, I understand now.