Tasmanian Tiger to Be Brought Back to Life!
Exactly 69 years after the last Tasmanian tiger died in an Australian zoo, scientists are planning to use Jurassic Park-style technology to bring the carnivore back to life. The thylacine, a wolf-like creature with a backwards-facing pouch and jaws the size of a shelf bracket, was the biggest meat-eating marsupial. Since the last living specimen, named Benjamin, died in Hobart zoo on the night of September 6 1936, it has become a conservation icon.
Scientists at the Australian Museum, in Sydney, first proposed bringing the thylacine back to life in 1999, but the plans were abandoned earlier this year when researchers said the DNA they had recovered was too poor in quality. However, the museum’s former director told Guardian Unlimited that a team of Australian and US researchers were restarting the project and hoped to use new techniques that could lead to the sequencing of the entire thylacine genome.
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