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Cenozoic Park: Cloning the Tasmanian Tiger

Posted by michael on from the velociraptor-up-next dept.

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)."

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  1. Repost.. dammit by XO · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This was posted right here on slashdot like 2 or 3 years ago now. Why such an old repost?

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