Like in "Jurassic Park"

Company brings extinct species back to life

Tasmanian tiger, dodo, woolly mammoth: a biotechnology company from Texas wants to bring back these extinct animals.

(Bild: Krone KREATIV/picturedesk, colossal 2x)

Is a real-life "Jurassic Park" on the horizon? Yes, if the US company Colossal has its way. Its researchers are planning to bring back extinct species such as the Tasmanian tiger, the woolly mammoth and the dodo in just a few years. Krone+ finds out how this is supposed to work and what an expert from the University of Veterinary Medicine has to say about it.

The dog-like creature paces nervously up and down in the cage. Long, dark stripes adorn the back of its back. The elongated snout sniffs at a man standing in front of the close-meshed fence. The short black-and-white video from 1935 shows "Benjamin", the last known pouched wolf. Just one year later, the unusual animal dies at Beaumaris Zoo in the Tasmanian capital Hobart.