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All around us, every day, things are disappearing--birds, butterflies, coral reefs, islands. Places we used to live. Things we used to eat. But what if there was a way to bring some of it back? Well, it turns out there is. A few miles north of San Diego, scientists are gathering up specimens of every living thing they can get their hands on in a last-ditch effort to save the planet from an unstoppable predator: us ...It's unassuming, the Frozen Zoo--just north of San Diego, deep in California inland nothingness, where it is housed at the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research. The institute is like any other academic building: low-slung, quiet, smells of cleaning supplies. The Frozen Zoo itself is even less glamorous. A room full of big frozen steel tanks fed by vacuum jacketed pipes pumping liquid nitrogen. Every time you open one of the freezers you get a witchy puff of smoke. Inside the tanks are the animals...
