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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. We get to play god again! by burtonator · · Score: 3, Troll

    I am very excited about this development.

    Being part of generation-X. I was not born early enough to have participated in the *first* exctinction of the thylacine!

    This way we get to bring it back to life, raise about 1000 of them, and then hunt them into extinction again! YAY!

    And. Since we have moore's law, 18 months from now we will be able to make twice as many tigers for 1/2 the cost!

    Man I love this stuff.

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

    Imagine if you had a beowolf cluster of these things!

    Kevin