Keeping To An Extinct Theme,

this one died out less than 85 years ago,

the thylacine, (Thylacinus cynocephalus), or Tasmanian Tiger as it is known, is now extinct, it was one of the largest known carnivorous marsupials, evolving about 4 million years ago, what brings it to my attention was that The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) recently released a “new” clip of Benjamin, the thylacine that was displayed for five years at Beaumaris Zoo in Tasmania, for many years, there were only a few black-and-white reels — with a combined running time of about 3 minutes — of the now-extinct thylacine, also known as the Tasmanian tiger. This “new” clip was recorded in 1935 as part of a travelogue called Tasmania the Wonderland, but it was only digitalized and released by the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) in May this year, despite the species’ extinction status, people continue to report sightings of the thylacine in the Tasmanian wilderness, although none of these sightings have been confirmed, but here is the thing, can either the mammoth of thylacine be brought back to ’life’, by cloning? Here are a few links that might or might not make that happen, from the National Geographic, Cosmos Magazine and the Daily Express, I wonder if we will ever see one or the other walk the earth again?