Cenozoic Park: Cloning the Tasmanian Tiger

Mirk writes "The Australian Museum reports a breakthrough in their plans to clone the Tasmanian Tiger. The ``tiger'', actually a carnivorous marsupial, became extinct in 1936, when the last known specimen died in captivity. Er, did I say ``extinct''? Now it looks like what everyone thought was an extinction may be ``a 70-year hiccup'', to quote the press release. The museum's Evolutionary Biology Unit have successfully replicated individual Tasmanian Tiger genes using a process known as PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction)."

Comments

Wow...

[ImaLamer]

State funded cloning... kinda like a movie I just watched yesterday.

Why bother?

[L. VeGas]

Bugs Bunny will just kill it again.

Now if they can do the same thing with the dodo

[denisbergeron]

and we will get a choice at the thanksgiving !

Cloning

[Arsewiper]

The Vatican claims to have the original forskin of Jesus. They should clone that for an all-round Second Coming.

"The corner stone that the builders left out is the corner stone on which I build my church." said the Man.

One thing worse than cloning extinct animals...

[FortKnox]

... is cloning slashdot articles!

Tiger, not devil

[srmalloy]

Bugs Bunny will just kill it again.

Tasmanian tiger, not Tasmanian devil. In the future, please pay more attention to the details; they're important.

You missed one

[sien]

You left out the most important one:

4. Does it taste good ?

Re:It's Not A Tiger - And It May Not Even Be Extin

[Anonymous Coward]

In reality it's a marsupial, not a mammal

You're wrong...

public class Marsupial extends Mammal {
Marsupial code here...
}

See for yourself

Re:I hope they've learned their lesson....

[teamhasnoi]

I saw Gremlins in the theater and own the book, so I feel I'm pretty much an expert in this field.

1) Don't feed them after midnight.
2) Don't let them get wet.
3) For Pete's sake, the small cute ones are the reason we're in this mess. Do not be fooled by their disarming mewling sounds!
4) And this is the important one, Don't EVER forget, ancient Asian men in antique shops will always sell you something cheaply, but the cost in the long term is not worth the trouble. ;)

Re:As much as I want to be happy about this...

[DrSkwid]

unless it's adaptation was "appeal to genetic scientists as a good candidate for a Polymerase Chain Reaction"

Re:Look at the introduction of 'foreign' species..

[tdemark]

Skinner: Well, I was wrong. The lizards are a godsend.
Lisa: But isn't that a bit short-sighted? What happens when we're overrun by lizards?
Skinner: No problem. We simply release wave after wave of Chinese needle snakes. They'll wipe out the lizards.
Lisa: But aren't the snakes even worse?
Skinner: Yes, but we're prepared for that. We've lined up a fabulous type of gorilla that thrives on snake meat.
Lisa: But then we're stuck with gorillas!
Skinner: No, that's the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death.

Killer tomatoes

[purpledinoz]

Everyone knows it's gonna happen. Someday, these scientists are gonna create a breed of killer tomatoes!!! It will be the end of the world as we know it...

Re:As much as I want to be happy about this...

[An Onerous Coward]

The Tazmanian Tiger could easily be fit for its environment again. First, they only died out because we went around shooting them with guns. Just leaving them alone would probably be enough to get them back on their feet. Then there's the chance that it might be possible to sell gaming rights at some astronomical figure which makes it worthwhile for the locals to keep the tigers around.

Yes, I'm saying that we should bring these poor creatures back from extinction so we can start shooting them again. ::ducks and runs::

Re:How PCR works (b/c I'm bored)

[Dr Caleb]

5' ATTTC 3'
5' ATTTC 3' and 5' GAAAT 3'
5' ATTTG (long space........) TCGTC 3'
3' TAAAC (long space........) AGGAG 5'

Yes Alex, I'd like to buy a vowel...