De-extinction

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Tasmanian Tiger the focus of ‘de-extinction’

‘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...