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Should the thylacine be brought back to life?

www.abc.net.au Should the thylacine be brought back to life? Here's how you responded

Scientists say they can bring the extinct thylacine back from the dead within a decade, but does anybody want them to? The resounding answer to an ABC survey is "Yes".

Should the thylacine be brought back to life? Here's how you responded

Scientists say they can revive the extinct thylacine, commonly known as the Tasmanian tiger, within a decade, but does anybody want them to?

There is a plan to edit the genome of a related species — the dunnart — to resemble the thylacine's DNA, then use another relative as a surrogate to gestate the reincarnated baby thylacines.

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