University of Melbourne partners with US biotech company to plan genetic restoration of the thylacine
University of Melbourne partners with US biotech company to plan genetic restoration of the thylacine
An ambitious new project aims to bring an iconic marsupial species back from the dead.
Colossal Biosciences has announced its new effort to ressurrect the Thylacine using innovative de-extinction technologies.
Millions of dollars are being injected into a US startup venture that plans to use a Nobel Prize-winning genome editing method called Crispr-Cas9 to 'de-extinct' long-lost species.
US biotech startup Colossal is supercharging efforts by Australian scientists to de-extinct the thylacine.
Using their advanced 'de-extinction' processes, Colossal is hoping to bring the Thylacine, or Tasmanian Tiger, back to life.
The passenger pigeon, the Tasmanian tiger, and the Baiji (Yangtze river dolphin) are among the most recognized casualties of what many experts refer to as the sixth mass extinction. This is a consequence of human activities leading to the vanishing of vertebrate animal species at rates hundreds of t
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Does the Tasmanian Tiger still roam the island state, parts of the Australian mainland, and the northern land mass of Irian Jaya-Papua New Guinea? Despite being hunted to extinction in the early part of the 20th century, the Tasmanian Tiger continues to stalk the imaginations of people the world over. What's more, hundreds of reports of the striped dog-like marsupial with the fearsome gaping jaw are made each year in Australia. In The Tasmanian Tiger: Extinct or Extant?, biologists, geneticists, naturalists, and academics explore the evidence for and against the continuing existence of Thylacinus cynocephalus.
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A group of Tasmanian devils will be transferred to a small Australian island to start what is hoped will be a self-sustaining population, free from the facial tumour that has devastated their species.
The last known thylacine died in 1936, but many are still fixated on proving it lives on
They once shared our world, some as recently as a few years ago. From the lions that fought at the Colosseum to the blind dolphins of China, they were exceptional in life and remain iconic in death. They are the most memorable of all recently extinct animals.
