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Article: Bringing Back the Dead.(plans to clone a Tasmanian tiger in Australia)

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November 17, 2000
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An Australian scientist hopes to resurrect the extinct Tasmanian tiger using advanced cloning.

Things got way out of hand--twice!--in Jurassic Park. So how smart is the idea of bringing extinct predators back to life?

An Australian scientist is giving it a try for real. The extinct species he has chosen is the thylacine (THIGH le-seen), or Tasmanian tiger. "We would like to see Australia overrun with this wonderful animal again," said the scientist, Mike Archer, director of the Australian Museum in Sydney.

Hmmm. Jurassic Park III?

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The Tasmanian tiger wasn't really a tiger. It was one of the many marsupials (pouched ...

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