Someday, maybe we'll be able to bring back well-known extinct species like passenger pigeons where biological material may still exist in a museum somewhere. We

Someday, maybe we'll be able to bring back well-known extinct species like passenger pigeons where biological material may still exist in a museum somewhere. We're never going to bring back the thousands of arthropod species that have gone extinct since the industrial revolution[1] - many of which we never knew about in the first place. [1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320719317823 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000632071... > However, it is likely that insect extinctions since the industrial era are around 5 to 10%, i.e. 250,000 to 500,000 species, based on estimates of 7% extinctions for land snails (Régnier et al., 2015). In total at least one million species are facing extinction in the coming decades, half of them being insects (IPBES, 2019).