Hi, I'm Wendy Zuckerman and you're listening to Science Burses from Gimlet.

This is the show that pits facts against fossils.

Today on the show, welcome to Jurassic Park.

Scientists are closer than ever before to resurrecting animals that have gone extinct.

And some are getting big bucks to do it.

Just this year, we learnt that investors through $15 million at researchers

who were trying to bring back the bully mammoth.

And if we're getting closer to the bully mammoth, could we push things even further?

And bring back T-Rex.

Jack Horna has been waiting for something like this his whole life.

When did your love affair with dinosaurs begin?

I was born this way.

I found my first dinosaur bone when I was eight.

And I found my first dinosaur skeleton when I was 13.

So I've never thought about doing anything else.

Jack grew up in Montana, where dino bones kind of come out of the ground like daisies.

And at nights, he would dream about having a pet dinosaur to play with.

Borsi, what kid in this world doesn't want to have a pet dinosaur.

And once he realised that there was this job where you would dig around looking for dinosaur bones

and get paid for it, he knew that's what he wanted to do.

But he never thought he'd actually get there.

You know, I went through school with dyslexia and flunked everything.

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