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Scott Olson—Getty Images by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Mar 13, 2014 11:01 AM UTC Conservationists and scientists have a saying, “extinction is forever.” But soon biologists will be able to clone long-gone animals, in the hopes of redefining that axiom to “DE-extinction is forever.” TIME talked with Stewart Brand, president of [Revive & Restore](http://longnow.org/revive/), about the technology that may soon allow scientists to bring back extinct species using the DNA found in museum fossils. 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