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

Re:Why bother?

[BlaKnail]

The tazmanian tiger is entirely different from the tazmanian devil, which is still alive.
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Re:I really hope

[DerekTheRed]

Flamebait???!!! Mod up! God is not scientific. Any entity that: 1. Cannot be defined, 2. Has contradictory characteristics, 3. Is not supported by evidence, certainly does not deserve to be acknowledged by a scientist. The scientist is far more likely to be real. Science does not acknowledge the existence of a supernatural "creator" -- or that anything was "created" at all -- and therefore does not need to limit its research accordingly. I've made several comments of this sort on /. and I keep getting modded into oblivion. Come on everyone, it's not like we have some kind of atheist-troll pact here (although that sounds like fun). A lot of scientists and scholars are atheists and they deserve respect.