How we'll resurrect the gastric brooding frog, the Tasmanian tiger

Name: How we'll resurrect the gastric brooding frog, the Tasmanian tiger
Uploaded: 2013-03-15T00:00:00.000Z
Duration: 17 min
Description: The gastric brooding frog lays its eggs just like any other frog -- then swallows them whole to incubate. That is, it did until it went extinct 30 years ago. Paleontologist Michael Archer makes a case to bring back the gastric brooding frog and the thylacine, commonly known as the Tasmanian tiger.

TEDxDeExtinction 2013Mar 201317 min608455 views

Speaker

Michael ArcherFuturist | Exponential Technology & Human-Machine Symbiosis

About this talk

The gastric brooding frog lays its eggs just like any other frog -- then swallows them whole to incubate. That is, it did until it went extinct 30 years ago. Paleontologist Michael Archer makes a case to bring back the gastric brooding frog and the thylacine, commonly known as the Tasmanian tiger.