But thanks to years of research and modern technology a close relative of the shimmery iridescent butterfly species has been reintroduced to the dunes in Presidio National Park in San Francisco.
“This isn’t a Jurassic Park-style de-extinction project, but it will have a major impact,” said Durrell Kapan, a senior research fellow and the lead Academy researcher on the project. Chris Grinter, the collection manager of entomology at California Academy of Sciences, said it all started by using their collections and “modern technology, genome sequencing to go back and extract genomes from these extinct butterflies that are over 100, 150 years old.”
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