A ‘De-Extinction’ Company Says It’ll Bring Back the Tasmanian Tiger
The last known thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus, or Tasmanian tiger) died in Hobart's Beaumaris Zoo in 1936. Now, a genetic engineering company that last year announced plans to put thousands of woolly mammoths back on the Siberian steppe has added the lost marsupial wolf to its de-extinction docket.