Australian Biologist Breaks Silence: "IT'S HERE" — The Tasmanian Tiger Footage They Feared

In 1936, the last Tasmanian tiger died alone in a Hobart zoo, and science closed the file for good. Nearly ninety years later, a wildlife biologist opened a jar holding a 110-year-old thylacine head preserved in ethanol — and pulled something out of it that nobody thought was still readable. This is the story of how "extinct" stopped being a final word: a genome rebuilt to 99.9%, over 300 genetic edits into a single cell, embryos grown in an artificial womb, and one scientist who now says a living Tasmanian tiger is a matter of when, not if. SOURCES USED Colossal Biosciences — Multiple Scientific Firsts in Progress Towards Thylacine De-Extinction: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241016627971/en/Colossal-Achieves-Multiple-Scientific-Firsts-in-Progress-Towards-Thylacine-De-Extinction CBS News — Scientists say they've made a breakthrough in efforts to bring back the extinct Tasmanian tiger: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tasmanian-tiger-scientists-breakthrough-bringing-back-extinct-thylacine/ Scientific American — De-extinction Company Aims to Resurrect the Tasmanian Tiger: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/de-extinction-company-aims-to-resurrect-the-tasmanian-tiger/ Newsweek — Genetics Company Wants To Bring Iconic Tasmanian Tiger Back From Extinction: https://www.newsweek.com/tasmanian-tiger-thylacine-extinction-colossal-biosciences-woolly-mammoth-1733900 Technology Networks — Colossal Achieves Key Milestones in Thylacine De-Extinction Effort: https://www.technologynetworks.com/genomics/news/colossal-achieves-key-milestones-in-thylacine-de-extinction-effort-392178 Phys.org — New genome reconstruction advances thylacine de-extinction efforts: https://phys.org/news/2024-10-genome-reconstruction-advances-thylacine-de.html BioSpace — Colossal Secures $200M in Series C Funding: https://www.biospace.com/press-releases/colossal-secures-200m-in-series-c-funding-from-twg-global-on-the-back-of-numerous-worlds-first-scientific-breakthroughs-on-path-to-de-extinction ZME Science — Preserved Tasmanian tiger head may bring the lost species back from extinction: https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/rep-reconstruction-species-tasmanian-tiger/ MUSIC 'Discovery' by Scott Buckley – released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au 'Within Our Nature' by Scott Buckley – released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au