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In the 2021 film, Extinct, a thylacine named Burnie, along with a group of other extinct animals, help the movie's main characters travel through time to rescue their species from extinction. [171] In the 2022 science-fiction show The Peripheral the Tasmanian tiger is brought back into existence from DNA extracts. [172]
It's been decades since Australia's thylacine, known as the Tasmanian tiger, was declared extinct and scientists say they've made a breakthrough as they research ways to bring back the carnivore.
The last known thylacine (Tasmanian tiger), photographed at Hobart Zoo in 1933. An endling is the last known individual of a species or subspecies. Once the endling dies, the species becomes extinct. The word was coined in correspondence in the scientific journal Nature.
Scientists at Colossal Biosciences may be a few steps closer to resurrecting a long-extinct carnivorous marsupial known as the Tasmanian tiger.
Thylacines in Washington D.C., c. 1906 The International Thylacine Specimen Database (ITSD) is the culmination of a four-year research project to catalogue and digitally photograph all known surviving specimen material of the thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) (or Tasmanian tiger) held within museum, university, and private collections.
The last Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, died in the 1930s, but the species may come back to life if these scientists succeed.
In October 2024, the company announced that it had rebuilt a 99.9% accurate genome of the thylacine, using a “pickled” 110-year-old fossilized Tasmanian tiger skull. This marks “the most complete ancient genome of any species known to date” and provides a full DNA blueprint to potentially bring back the Tasmanian tiger.
Reviving the dog-sized marsupial sounds noble, but some scientists say “de-extinction is a fairytale science.”