There’s the loch ness monster in Scotland. The yeti in the Himalayas, the abominable snowman in Alaska, the chupacabra in Mexico, but, in Tasmania, they claim a creature that indisputably existed, the tasmanian tiger, last seen in 1936, in a zoo. After, it was declared extinct. But, one group is dedicated to bringing it back to life, using science. Andrew Pask runs the Tigrr Lab that is adamant they can replicate the genome of it’s closest living relative, a dunnart, a mouse like marsupial, and turn it into a tasmanian tiger. He explains:
Pask has raised $15 million for a de-extinction project that is reminiscent of Jurassic Park. The Tigrr Lab is in partnership with American company Colossal Biosciences, which also is working to bring the wooly mammoth and dodo bird back from extinction. They count Leonardo Dicaprio, Paris Hilton and even the CIA among its backers.
