No, that’s exactly it. Framing this story as that they’re reviving extinct animals is misleading at best

Not just that, but the gun was loaded and cocked, and the safety was off. You’d need to have all of these things before the gun is able to fire. So either this guy was extremely negligent or he was planning on using the gun

Better late than never, I suppose?

While some see this as an academic lifeline, others view it as France capitalizing on a U.S. brain drain under anti-science policies

I don’t necessarily see how these are opposing viewpoints. Both are certainly true