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Coming Back Soon... The Tasmanian Tiger?

Posted by chrisd on from the sheep-clones-are-for-losers dept.

adoll writes: "Melbourne's The Age is reporting that DNA has been extracted from a 110 year old Tasmanian tiger (thylacine) bone. Scientists are now wondering if genes can be implanted into eggs of an existing species and born to surrogate mothers (numbat and Tasmanian devil are mentioned as possible hosts). The last tiger died in Hobart, Tasmania on September 9, 1936. It was believed the tigers were hunted to extinction (CD: Thems was good eatin) on Tasmania, but unconfirmed sighting have persisted to this day".

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  1. Re:Moral dilemma by khuber · · Score: 2, Funny
    Do you eat produce?

    Wouldn't "literally" playing god involve things like creating solar systems? Now that would kick ass. Then we could start breeding a planet of beautiful blonde chicks. THEN, because they'd think us geeks and nerds were the only males, we could like, you know, do stuff.

    -Kevin

  2. Re:Controvesial??? by Chasing+Amy · · Score: 3, Funny

    > Humans can not live on human biomass alone....

    Yes we can. Or didn't you know the answer to all our problems? Soylent Green!

    SOYLENT GREEN IS MADE OF PEOPLE!! IT'S MADE OF PEOPLE!!!

    Sorry. Someone had to say it...

    --

    Chasing Amy
    (We all chase Amy...)
    "The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws"-Tacitus
  3. Re:We get to play god again! by zephc · · Score: 5, Funny

    I want to get one as a pet! I will be getting laid BIG TIME at that point!

    I don't think that the thylacine will be interested in you like *that*.

    --
    "I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false." - L. Ron Hubbard Jr.
  4. Re:Breeding Population of ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    3 individuals is still too small for a viable population

    What do you mean?

    Ever visited deep rural south?

  5. Re:Cross-species cloning by mgblst · · Score: 2, Funny

    There was once giant kangaroos too, about 3-4 metres tall. Maybe we could resurrect them both, and they could fight it out...