A group of scientists is teaming up with Colossal Biosciences to bring the Tasmanian tiger back to life after it disappeared nearly 100 years ago.
New evidence suggests humans played a larger role than previously thought in driving the cave bear to extinction. Researchers have found that the enormous bears, which completely died out about 24,000 years ago and typically lived in Asia and Europe, were driven from caves by human hunters thousands of years ago.died, ending the reign of a species that dates back to 1000 BC. Now scientists are looking to bring them back from the dead.
Known as Thylacine, the carnivorous marsupial once roamed the Australian outback before the last known survivor of the striped species died in 1936. Scientists now plan to use genetic technology, ancient DNA collection, and artificial reproduction to bring the tiger back. "We would strongly advocate that first and foremost we need to protect our biodiversity from further extinctions, but unfortunately we are not seeing a slowing down in species loss," said Andrew Pask, a professor at the University of Melbourne leading the project at the Thylacine Integrated Genetic"This technology offers a chance to correct this and could be applied in exceptional circumstances where cornerstone species have been lost.
The last Tasmanian Tiger, named Benjamin, went extinct in 1936 not long after his species had been granted a protective status.
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