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Recent Press Release
3/12/13 – Submitted by National Geographic via PR Newswire
“TEDxDeExtinction Event, with Support of TED and Hosted by National Geographic, Features Leading Scientists and Conservationists from Around the World”
Recent print/online coverage
3/28/13 – Scientific American
“Will We Kill Off Today’s Animals If We Revive Extinct Ones?”
By David Biello
3/25/13 – Huffington Post
“The Conservation Perspective on DeExtinction”
By Stewart Brand
3/19/13 – Washington Post
De-extinction is the mind-blowing idea of the year
By Dominic Basulto
3/19/13 – MIT Technology Review
An Unlikely Plan to Revive the Passenger Pigeon
By Antonio Regalado
3/17/13 – Business Insider
Scientists Want to Bring 24 Animals Back From Extinction
By Jennifer Welsh
3/15/13 – LiveScience (and Yahoo News and HuffPost News)
‘De-Extinction’ Of Woolly Mammoth & Other Ancient Animals Could Become Reality, Scientists Say
By Megan Gannon
3/15/13 – Wired
“The Plan to Bring the Iconic Passenger Pigeon Back From Extinction”
By Kelly Servick
3/1/13 – Wall Street Journal
“Jurassic Pigeon: A Drive to Revive Extinct Species”
By Matt Ridley
TV coverage
3/29/13 – NZ TV (New Zealand)
“Bringing Animals Back from the Dead”
by Staff
3/23/13 – CBS News (w/ Carl Zimmer)
Staff Report
De-extinction: Is “Jurassic Park” a real possibility?
3/20/13 – CNN’s The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
“Can extinct species be brought back?”
By reporter Lisa Sylvester
3/15/13 – WUSA9 (CBS D.C.)
“Experts Meet to Talk About Bringing Animals Back From Extinction”
By Erica Grow
Radio coverage
3/15/13 – NPR (Morning Edition)
“It’s Called De-Extinction — It’s Like ‘Jurassic Park,’ Except It’s Real”
By Claire O’Neill
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The ‘x’ in ‘TEDx’ stands for “independently organized events.”
For more information on TEDx, visit http://www.ted.com/tedx.