Scientists hoping to catch a tiger by the gene trail are on the verge of creating a live thylacine before the 100th anniversary of the death of the last-known specimen famously filmed in a zoo.

    • No1@aussie.zone
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      25 days ago

      “Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.”

      Dr. Ian Malcolm, Jurassic Park

  • micgerne@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    25 days ago

    I’ve heard the same thing dozens of times over the past 20 years, it never eventuates.

    There’s a limited pool of money for environmentalist causes, all projects like this do is take that funding away from other projects that could prevent endangered species from going extinct.