Genetics start-up Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences announces de-extinction effort to bring the Tasmanian tiger back to life.
, Jeremy Austin from the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA de-extinction “fairytale science,” and claimed that efforts to bring back the thylacine or the mammoth are more about media attention than the actual science. In the same interview, marsupial DNA expert Dr.
Mike Westerman from La Trobe University added that he is “not convinced that it can be done with our current knowledge. Where on earth would a self-sustaining population be maintained?”Australia is no stranger to seeing its species vanish and is currently in the midst of a major biodiversity crisis. It has seen years of
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