Some scientists have set their next de-extinction target: the bluebuck antelope, which once roamed South Africa until humans hunted it to extinction around 1800.
Colossal Biosciences, the company that claims to have brought back the dire wolf, says the bluebuck could be next. But it raises a question that scientists and ethicists struggle to answer: is this truly resurrection, or simply genetic modification?
If humans can reverse extinction, should we? And does the ability of bringing species back someday make us less careful about protecting the ones we still have?
CBS News' @rileymcallanan breaks it all down.
NEW: Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters today that Pope Leo XIV doesn't understand “something called the just war doctrine.”
Pope Leo is an Augustinian friar who spent twelve years leading Augustine’s religious order.
Augustine invented the doctrine. https://t.co/dMEjVtSx08