Is the Thylacine not extinct?

[the conservative atheist]

Supposedly there is a project to clone it using genetic material from preserved specimens.

 

[Squamch]

He's got an interesting video regarding sitings in Papua New Guinea. I hope he does confirm their continued existence.

 

[total newb]

 

[Wendle]

They found live Coelacanths that were believed extinct for 100 years or so, so why not the Thylacine? A lot of steep, inaccessible country down there, plenty of space for them to hide.

I'd like to see the Procoptodon make a return. Should have a similar effect on tourists as the Bison in North America?

Be interesting if the Dirpotodon made a return, too. I'm not sure what we'd do to fence pasture and crops if these fuckers were still walking around?

They're a pretty recent loss, too. Hunted to extinction around 7000 years ago...

 

[M92PV4U]

I knew that they were fake by the way the dude was answering the questions.

 

[Ah Pook]

Real as fuckin Samsquanch!

The film quality is about the same.

 

[bdkw1]

They found live Coelacanths that were believed extinct for 100 years or so, so why not the Thylacine? A lot of steep, inaccessible country down there, plenty of space for them to hide.

I'd like to see the Procoptodon make a return. Should have a similar effect on tourists as the Bison in North America?

Be interesting if the Dirpotodon made a return, too. I'm not sure what we'd do to fence pasture and crops if these fuckers were still walking around?

They're a pretty recent loss, too. Hunted to extinction around 7000 years ago...

I'd like to see the Moa make a comeback. Cracking tourist heads open with a peek to the head would be hilarious. Those fuckers must have been tasty, cause the Maori ate every last one.

 

[ExWrench]

I'd like to see the Procoptodon make a return.

From GooglePedia:

Procoptodon: noun. Gigantic fucking kangaroo from the dinosaurific era, known for being horribly cartoonishly illustrated as in Fig 1A below.

Believed to have died from being ridiculed as a "boot licker" by relentless tribes of SJW anticopdodons.

Fig. 1A - eyewitness sketch of a bigass kangaroo by a terrified tourist who was unfortunately on 4 hits of dirty blotter acid and a big pinch of bath salts at the petting zoo last Tuesday.​

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[Wendle]

Fig. 1A - eyewitness sketch of a bigass kangaroo by a terrified tourist who was unfortunately on 4 hits of dirty blotter acid and a big pinch of bath salts at the petting zoo last Tuesday.​

Awesome!

 

[roundhouse]

Weird how with the big foot sightings , now that every person on the planet has a video camera in their pocket , no video has ever been taken.

 

[the conservative atheist]

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www.news.com.au

 

[ExWrench]

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www.news.com.au

Researchers used “one of the best preserved specimens known for any extinct species” to produce a comprehensive genome.

“This genome is a first for an extinct species, and a feat that many scientists believed would never be achieved for extinct species,” Colossal says.

A genome is all the genetic information of an organism.


Ben Lamm and Andy Pask from the Colossal thylacine de-extinction project. Picture: Supplied
“It’s rare to have a sample that allows you to push the envelope in ancient DNA methods to such an extent,” Colossal chief scientist Beth Shapiro said.

“We’ve delivered a record-breaking ancient genome that will accelerate our thylacine de-extinction project.”


At the same time, the researchers have achieved world-firsts in assisted reproductive technologies. The scientists optimised an approach for inducing ovulation in dunnarts – small marsupials only found in Australia. From there scientists can control when dunnarts come into heat, producing more eggs.


“These eggs can then be used to create new embryos, and, eventually, these eggs will be host for our edited thylacine genomes.”

Separately, scientists have been able to take fertilised single-cell embryos and culture them over half way through pregnancy in an artificial uterus device.

Thirdly, scientists used dog and wolf DNA to find the genes which gave Tasmanian tigers their distinct jaw and skull shapes. After a series of experiments, thylacine DNA was put into mice, which changed the mice’s head shape.

The thylacine DNA was also successfully “knocked-in” to dunnart DNA, which is crucial because dunnarts will be the surrogates for Tasmanian tigers. The researchers are now aiming to facilitate the birth of a Tasmanian tiger within three years, and think the animals can be returned to the wild in 10 years.

Oh, goody - science is gonna' Jurrassic Park us up a recreated Tasmanian Cat Dog by shoving recovered or replicated DNA into every random animal's genome that it might work in.

Hope they put in some frog DNA so the new terror scourge mutants can reproduce asexually

 

[east_beast]

Few movies quotes have held up better over time.

 

[Norm]

Lets see, take a mouse embryo, fuck with the DNA and make a wolf. What could possibly go wrong.

 

[ExWrench]

Lets see, take a mouse embryo, fuck with the DNA and make a wolf. What could possibly go wrong.