Scientists plan to revive Tasmanian tiger that has been extinct since 1936
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Nearly 90 years after its extinction, scientists are now are attempting to resurrect an apex predator — the Tasmanian tiger (officially known as a thylacine).
The phrase ‘dead and gone’ may no longer be so apropos.
Nearly 90 years after its extinction, scientists are now are attempting to resurrect the Tasmanian tiger (officially known as a thylacine), a carnivorous marsupial formerly native to the Australian bush.
In a pioneering scientific endeavour not so unlike the movie Jurassic Park, the Dallas-based genetics company, Colossal Biosciences, announced Tuesday they are attempting to de-extinct the thylacine to improve biodiversity and the climate.
According to the company’s official website, DNA collected from long-dead thylacines will be used to bring back the animal.
The thylacine faced human-caused extinction, Colossal Biosciences claimed. Once considered a pest by European settlers in Australia, the apex predator often fed on livestock. For this reason, a bounty was placed on the animal in 1830 and it was heavily hunted.
The last wild thylacine was killed between 1910 and 1920, Colossal Biosciences claimed. The last ever thylacine, named Benjamin, died in captivity in 1936 at the Beaumaris Zoo in Hobart, Tasmania. The species was granted protected status in Australia that same year, but it was too late for the former apex predator.
“At the top of its own food chain, the thylacine played a significant role as a protector of environmental health for the regions it habited,” Colossal Biosciences wrote on their website. “Its role as apex meant that it helped remove the weak and the sick as well as kept the balance with competitors helping to ensure species diversity.”
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