A 60 minutes special will reveal that it is possible to bring back certain extinct species using DNA.

The word from scientists this weekend is that it may be possible one day soon, to use DNA for re-starting the life cycle of extinct animals.

According to one scientist: “Just the study of ancient DNA only broke onto the scene 20 years ago or so. The idea that we could harvest DNA from extinct creatures, from fossil bones, learn something about the past…” so ten or twenty years form now, who knows what we may be able to do! “Possibly, and especially if those animals were preserved in any way, there’s a good prospect of that. It’s sort of like ‘CSI,’ you know? How good is this forensic material? Can you get good DNA information from older and older and older material? That’s pretty promising…”

This seems a little to0 similar to Jurassic Park, let’s hope it doesn’t turn out the same way.