Imagine more dragons: US biotech firm aims to breed tiny Australian lizard that is near extinction
by Adam Morton Climate and environment editor from Environment | The Guardian on (#6FTMJ)
Colossal Biosciences, which is behind bid to bring back Tasmanian tiger, teams up with Melbourne Zoo to save tiny reptile
A US biotechnology de-extinction" company behind efforts to bring the Tasmanian tiger, woolly mammoth and dodo back from the dead is backing a project to save a tiny Australian dragon.
The support from Colossal Biosciences for a project to restore the Victorian grassland earless dragon - which was feared extinct before being rediscovered in the wild this year - was announced as the company's representatives visited Tasmania to speak with officials about their plans and inspect a potential thylacine rewilding site.
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