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I'm Brian Cox.
I'm Robin Ince and this is the Infinite Monkey Cage.
Now, look out of your window.
If you sat at home listening to this and you know what can you see?
Perhaps a song thrush.
Maybe you can see an urban fox near your bins.
A magpie, or if you're lucky, two.
But imagine instead you saw a roaming Tyrannosaurus rex that was eating your cats.
Well, that's the kind of world that the boffins are trying to create.
Why are you adopting that tone?
Well, I was told to adopt that tone because apparently we're not getting enough of the Jeremy vine phone in audience.
And this was the kind of thing that would draw them in boffins.
So you might wonder what Robin is on about.
But today we're looking at the subject of de extinction, bringing extinct creatures back into the biosphere.
Basically, Jurassic Park.
We know how that ended.
With a sequel, another sequel.
Now, is it possible to bring species like the woolly mammoth or the dodo back from the dead?