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Article: Revive the extinct Tasmanian tiger - through cloning?(Features)(Ideas)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- July 11, 2002
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Byline: Mark Schulman Special to The Christian Science Monitor
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA -- Ask any American who grew up on Sunday morning cartoons, and he or she will surely be able to recognize the infamous Tasmanian devil - one of Bugs Bunny's ferocious yet lovable sidekicks from Down Under.
Ask the same people about the Tasmanian tiger, and they will most likely draw a blank. That's because the Tasmanian tiger became extinct long before it had a chance to audition for Warner Brothers.
All that may change, however, if a small group of Australian scientists have their way and do what some believe is the stuff of science fiction - to clone an ...