The last known thylacine died in captivity in 1936.
Can an extinct species be brought back to life? Scientists are taking a"giant leap" in that direction by using gene-editing to resurrect the Tasmanian tiger, a carnivorous marsupial from Australia and the continent's only marsupial apex predator. It died out nearly a century ago, driven to extinction by human hunters and by the introduction of nonnative species to their grassland, wetland and forest habitats.
However, such efforts also raise questions about prioritizing high-tech solutions for resurrecting charismatic animals that humans have already exterminated, while hundreds of species teeter on the brink of extinction today, The Guardian noted.
Tasmanian tigers, or thylacines, appeared in Australia about 4 million years ago and were once widespread across the continent, according to the Australian Museum in Sydney. Despite their name, they didn't look much like tigers; in fact, they were sometimes referred to as"long dogs with stripes" because of their doglike heads and distinctively-marked rumps, according to the University of Melbourne.
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