Beth Shapiro

“the golden toad was the only Bufo to display such a striking orange color. What if the proteins that made the orange color had some undiscovered medical purpose, or psychoactive properties? We’ll never know until somebody licks one, and for that we’ll have to bring it back.”
― Beth Shapiro, How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction

“For several weeks, I sat in the dark damp cold of the library’s basement, resisting the surprisingly potent lure to get warm by drinking hot tea or setting books on fire,”
― Beth Shapiro, Life as We Made It: How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined—and Redefined—Nature