Tuesday, September 26, 2023

TASMANIAN TIGERS

By Bob Walsh

 

Experts argued thylacines were extinct on the mainland 2,000 to 4,000 years ago while the last known thylacine died in Hobart Zoo in 1936

The last known Tasmanian tiger (pictured) died in Hobart Zoo in 1936

 

Tasmanian tigers are extinct (probably), but maybe soon will not be.  The last known one died in 1936 but scientists have got enough DNA from a 132 year old specimen in good condition that they believe they can clone one, and they are going to give it a go.  There has also been talk of a Japanese effort to clone a Wooly Mammoth, but as far as I know that is just talk.

Just a thought.  Just because a thing CAN be done, does that mean is SHOULD be done?

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