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

Name: How we'll resurrect the gastric brooding frog, the Tasmanian tiger
Uploaded: 2013-06-27T15:00:59Z
Duration: 17 min 23 s
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.

623,497 plays|

Michael Archer |

TEDxDeExtinction

• March 2013

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.