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.

One thing worse than cloning extinct animals...

[FortKnox]

... is cloning slashdot articles!