JURASSIC PARK PREDICTED the emergent ability to de-extinct past species. The 1990 book by Michael Crichton, later adapted by Spielberg as a film, was ahead of the technology curve, as the ability to resurrect extinct species was only first attempted in 2003 with the Pyrenean Ibex (but the offspring did not survive).
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