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Bits of Tassie Tiger Brought Back from Extinction
zerobeat writes "Scientists from Melbourne, Australia have managed to resurrect the gene responsible for the development of cartilage and bone from the now extinct Tasmanian Tiger. The gene was expressed in a mouse embryo so the full reincarnation of a full Tassie Tiger is a long way off. You can listen to an MP3 of ABC Australia's Robyn Williams discussing the results with the lead scientists. This is the first time DNA from an extinct species has been made to live again in a live animal."
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until some renegade security geek disables the electric fence, and T-Rex's start eating attorneys everywhere...
oh wait...let 'em run free then
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this time the tigers would be killed by Global Warming
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I'm sure a lot of environmentalists might be appalled, but, why are we trying to bring back or defend large predator species? Tigers eat people or eat things that people could eat, and they are faster and stronger than any naked man. Same can be said for lions, cheetahs, bears, gorillas, and more. We don't need -any- of these animals to be running around in any place except for on TV. It's just too dangerous! :-)
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You did. Didn't you notice the datestamp on this post? The year is 2035, and we're all working very hard on squashing the Unix epoch time bug.
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Imagine my surprise. . .
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"Robyn Williams discussing the results with the lead scientists".
-Please, oh please, let that be a misspelling of the Robin Williams I know.
Knowing Google's lust for data collection, the Soviet Union is still alive and well inside the psyche of Sergey Brin....
Agreed. There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch.
Well, the tiger DNA is only 70 years old. The Dino DNA is 6000 years old. ;-)
There, corrected it for you.
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I get as sentimental about the poor as the next guy
;o).
Oopsies! That was supposed to read as "I get as sentimental about the poor [insert favoured endangered species here] as the next guy", except I used greater than and less than symbols in the original which was obviously filtered by the slashcode. For the record, I am, *in no way*, suggesting that we hunt the poor to extinction
Oh @#$%@!!! no!
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MCSE? No, sir...I don't do Windows. Yes, I am an idealist. What's your point?
Pfft, We all know that dinosaurs never actually existed. The bones were put there to test you....
Not to mention the size of that pooper-scooper you'd have to take on a walk! Whooohooooo!!!
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