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    Scientists plan the resurrection of an animal that's been extinct since 1936

    Almost 100 years after its extinction, the Tasmanian tiger may live once again. Scientists want to resurrect the striped carnivorous marsupial, officially known as a thylacine, which used to roam the Australian bush.


    The ambitious project will harness advances in genetics, ancient DNA retrieval and artificial reproduction to bring back the animal.


    "We would strongly advocate that first and foremost we need to protect our biodiversity from further extinctions, but unfortunately we are not seeing a slowing down in species loss," said Andrew Pask, a professor at the University of Melbourne and head of its Thylacine Integrated Genetic Restoration Research Lab, who is leading the initiative.


    "This technology offers a chance to correct this and could be applied in exceptional circumstances where cornerstone species have been lost," he added.

    The project is a collaboration with Colossal Biosciences, founded by tech entrepreneur Ben Lamm and Harvard Medical School geneticist George Church, who are working on an equally ambitious, if not bolder, $15 million project to bring back the woolly mammoth in an altered form.

    About the size of a coyote, the thylacine disappeared about 2,000 years ago virtually everywhere except the Australian island of Tasmania. As the only marsupial apex predator that lived in modern times, it played a key role in its ecosystem, but that also made it unpopular with humans.


    European settlers on the island in the 1800s blamed thylacines for livestock losses (although, in most cases, feral dogs and human habitat mismanagement were actually the culprits), and they hunted the shy, seminocturnal Tasmanian tigers to the point of extinction.

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    I remember first hearing of plans to resurrect the Tassie Tiger back inn the 80s . . . it'd be cool if they did

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    Seeing a live Tasmanian tiger would be the most exciting thing EVER.

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    Quote Originally Posted by misskit View Post
    Seeing a live Tasmanian tiger would be the most exciting thing EVER.
    Quote Originally Posted by panama hat View Post
    I remember first hearing of plans to resurrect the Tassie Tiger back inn the 80s . . . it'd be cool if they did
    Ditto on both comments. They aim to achieve this within the next decade. An ambitious project but creating one individuals will be a challenge, an entire, genetically diverse sustainable population capable of living wild another level again.

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    a more ridiculous project would be hard to imagine. oh hang on, they are working on bringing back the mammoth.
    these silly boffins have been watching too many frankenstein and jurassic park movies.
    nature is all about the survival of the fittest, and the tiger just wasnt up to the challenge.

    what next? resurrect neanderthals.


    Seeing a live Tasmanian tiger would be the most exciting thing EVER.
    what?? .... even more exciting than a cure for cancer or for alzheimers

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    Quote Originally Posted by taxexile View Post
    nature is all about the survival of the fittest, and the tiger just wasnt up to the challenge.
    It was not nature that wiped out the tiger, it was humans using firearms. To use your logic, every man induced destruction of the planet is just a part of "nature". Completely absurd.

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    To use your logic, every man induced destruction of the planet is just a part of "nature". Completely absurd.

    human induced destruction is a direct result of human nature which in itself is one of the many weaknesses of humankind and by association a serious flaw of nature, but if human nature does not change for the better then nature will in time remedy it, probably by ensuring our extinction thanks to pandemic disease or the current favourite, man induced climate change.

    but for the present, humankind should use its undoubted talents and abilities to bring about an end to incurable disease before embarking on useless vanity projects such as those mentioned in the news article

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    Quote Originally Posted by taxexile View Post
    but if human nature does not change for the better then nature will in time remedy it, probably by ensuring our extinction thanks to pandemic disease or the current favourite, man induced climate change.
    Both of those are very real threats, but as a betting man, my current wager is on a madman in Moscow with his shaky little finger on a nuclear button.

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    Quote Originally Posted by taxexile View Post

    what?? .... even more exciting than a cure for cancer or for alzheimers
    Sorry Tax, you’re rooted.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bsnub View Post
    Both of those are very real threats, but as a betting man, my current wager is on a madman in Moscow with his shaky little finger on a nuclear button.
    a distinct possibility.

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    ^ Isn’t he just. If only we were so noble.


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    Christ on a bicycle, have none of you seen Jurassic Park?!


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    Why is taxidriver such a nasty and angry old man all the time? It must be horrible being in his shoes.

    A story about bring back a species, scientific marvel . . . and he goes on about cancer, alzheimers, vanity projects etc...



    Quote Originally Posted by DrWilly View Post
    Sorry Tax, you’re rooted.

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    do you not see the irony in your statement?

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    Quote Originally Posted by taxexile View Post
    what next? resurrect neanderthals.


    Been done already Tax, fuckers are corralled in Merthyr Tydfil.

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    Quote Originally Posted by taxexile View Post
    do you not see the irony in your statement?
    No, because there isn't any . . . but I do thank you for your first ever response to a post without vulgarities - well done.

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    Quote Originally Posted by taxexile View Post
    what?? .... even more exciting than a cure for cancer or for alzheimers
    As the genie said to Prince Charles. "Let’s have another look at that dog”.

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    Quote Originally Posted by misskit View Post
    Scientists plan the resurrection of an animal that's been extinct since 1936
    I thought maybe they'd go for Rudyard Kipling.

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