The current plans to de-extinct and re-wild the dodo calls into question the motivation. And there are ethical issues as well. I always think that if humankind wants to de-extinct species such as the dodo or the Tasmanian tiger or indeed the woolly mammoth, it …
Here is a recently colourised film footage of the last surviving Tasmanian tiger taken in 1933 at Hobart’s Beaumaris Zoo. The thylacine a.k.a. Tasmanian tiger is in the news in two ways: the experts have colourised an old film of the last Tasmanian tiger …
The experts are going to clone the Tasmanian tiger (Thylacine). They are convinced that they can do it using Crispr gene-editing. In layperson’s terms and employing a very general description; firstly, they’re going to produce the complete genetic code for the Tasmanian tiger. Then they …
