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<p>Earlier this year, a US biotech company claimed it had brought back a long-extinct species - the dire wolf, which roamed ancient America thousands of years ago.</p><p>And the same editing technology that remade dire wolves could also be used to stop Australian species from going extinct.</p><p>In episode two of Artificial Evolution, Pete heads to the labs that are safeguarding the genetic material of unique Australian species and working to bring back the thylacine.</p><p>And visits the researchers working on quolls to make them immune to cane toad toxins and experimenting with putting alpaca genes into endangered frogs to protect them from a deadly fungal disease.</p><p>As this new field of science opens up opportunities to edit endangered species … can and should we act? And do we have our priorities wrong in tackling species loss and climate change?</p><p>Artificial Evolution is a four-part series from Science Friction about how gene technologies are changing the world around us...