Michael Archer: How we'll resurrect the gastric brooding frog, the Tasmanian tiger

The gastric brooding frog lays its eggs just like any other frog -- then swallows them whole to incubate. That is, it did until it went extinct 30 years ago. Paleontologist Michael Archer makes...

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Translator: Joseph Geni Reviewer: Morton BastI do want to test this question we're all interested in:Does extinction have to be forever?I'm focused on two projects I want to tell you about.One is the Thylacine Project.The other one is the Lazarus Project,and that's focused on the gastric-brooding frog.And it would be a fair question to ask,why have we focused on these two animals?Well, point number one, each of them represents a unique family of its own.We've lost a whole family.That's a big chunk of the global genome gone.I'd like it back.The second reason is that we killed these things.In the case of the thylacine, regrettably, we shot every one that we saw.We slaughtered them.In the case of the gastric-brooding frog...