thylacine

1 The thylacine, also known as the Tasmanian tiger, was declared extinct decades ago, so a confirmed sighting would certainly be cause for celebration.

2 The company also has plans to bring back the wooly mammoth and a fox-like predatory marsupial, the thylacine or Tasmanian tiger.

3 The team behind the bid say it can be recreated using stem cells and gene-editing technology, and the first thylacine could be reintroduced to the wild in 10 years' time.

4 One of their closest relatives is the now-extinct thylacine, also known as the Tasmanian Tiger.

5 The document from Tasmania's Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment reveals that there were two sightings of the Tasmanian tiger — also known as a thylacine — earlier this year.

6 Turning a dunnart into a thylacine, Helgen says, would be the equivalent of editing a dog’s genome until the resulting animal looked like a cat.

7 If the scientists do get to the point where they have actual living thylacines in hand, Pask says they would consult the public, including Indigenous communities, about any release.

8 And a year later it announced such an effort for the thylacine, aka the Tasmanian tiger.

9 The team saw a steep drop in genetic diversity suggesting that thylacine numbers began dwindling some 70,000–120,000 years ago, well before humans reached Australia.

10 A study published in December 2017 suggested that thanks to advancements in DNA research, it may be possible to bring the thylacine, which first appeared 4 million years ago, back from extinction.

11 A point of particular debate is the age of a thylacine carcass found in a cave on the Nullarbor Plain in 1966, so fresh that it still had an intact tongue, eyeball, and striped fur.

12 Some species are simply gone forever because of how unique they were, and the thylacine is one of them, he says.

13 But Andrew Pask, a developmental biologist at the University of Melbourne, Parkville, who is spearheading an effort to bring back an extinct marsupial called the thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger, is unfazed by the new report.

14 Depending on whom you ask, the Tasmanian tiger or thylacine has either been extinct for nearly a century or has been just really good at hiding.

15 In the extinction of animal, the thylacine is the worst.

在灭绝的动物里，袋狼算是最惨的了。

16 John Pickrell, wildlife writer and author of new book Flames of Extinction, tells Guardian Australia the appeal may lie in the combination of the thylacine’s uniqueness and our guilt.

17 I couldn’t help thinking of all the purported thylacine videos that are dismissed as “just” a quoll.

18 It isn’t unusual for an interest in thylacines to lead back to the psychology of the humans who see them.

19 She added that she’d be interested to see if the thylacine’s developmental pattern was shared among its carnivorous pouched cousins, like the thylacoleo, or marsupial lion, and the thylacosmilus, or saber-toothed marsupial.

20 Next the researchers will compare the genome of the thylacine to that of one of its closest living relatives: the fat-tailed dunnart, a mouse-sized marsupial that is relatively abundant and copes well in captivity.

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