‘The thylacine – or Tasmanian Tiger – has long been an icon of human-caused extinction. In the 1800s and early 1900s, European colonizers in Tasmania wrongly blamed the dog-sized, tiger-striped, carnivorous marsupial for killing their sheep and chickens. The settlers slaughtered thylacines by the thousands, exchanging the animals’ skins for a government bounty. The last known thylacine spent its days pacing a zoo cage in Hobart, Tasmania, and died of neglect in 1936.’
- Images by Henricus Peters – from a Pop-up Museum exhibit in New Zealand
Introducing ‘DE-EXTINCTION’ – an initiative that seeks to create new versions of lost species, beginning with using DNA. Colossal Biosciences, a Texas-based de-extinction company has made headlines when it revealed that it planned to bring back the woolly mammoth, announced today that its second project will be resurrecting the thylacine.
