Extinct tortoise 'can live again' |
By Richard Black Environment correspondent, BBC News website |
  | Every shell hides a story... |
An extinct Galapagos tortoise species could walk again, scientists believe. ......Cross-breeding these living tortoises might re-create the extinct species - though it could take a century. "We might need three or four generations to do this," she told BBC News. "But in theory it could be done, and I think it's pretty exciting to bring back from the dead a genome that we thought was gone." |
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7630239.stm