THYLACINES IN THE NEWS

	DNA analysis provides insight into Thylacine evolution, demography Tasmania Examiner This is a 109-year-old specimen of a young pouch thylacine (aka the Tassie Tiger) from Museums Victoria. It is special because it has much more intact DNA than other specimens, enabling scientists at The University of Melbourne to piece together the entire genetic sequence of the thylacine for the first ... Tasmanian tigers were going extinct before we pushed them over the edge - Earth Touch News The last Tasmanian tiger died in 1936. Can mapping its genome help bring it back? - National Post Genome sequence expands on the story of the extinct Tasmanian tiger - New Atlas Full Coverag
	Tasmanian tiger doomed long befre humans came along Channel NewsAsia "Our hope is that there is a lot the thylacine can tell us about the genetic basis of extinction to help other species," said University of Melbourne biologist Andrew Pask, co-author of a study published in Nature Ecology and Evolution. Pask added the research may eventually enable scientists to clone the ...