As much as diversity is important in ecosystems, reviving extinct species seems like an expensive and frivolous exercise if the environment isn't also somehow changed so that the species would this time survive and reach a stable population. What are the chances of that, with the concurrent mass extinction of so many other species during the Anthropocene?

Also if the probe is the same as the one they currently sell, its crazy expensive, has to be replaced every 3 days and has an enormous needle. Too bad they don't mention any of that in the article.

A note about GIMP: here in South Africa that word is hardly ever used among people who speak English as their first language. An old (1960) dictionary I have defines it as "a twist of silk". My brother knows about having a "gimp leg", and says he thinks it might be British slang for a hooligan.