Back to life: Inside the ambitious project to resurrect Australia’s Tasmanian tiger | 101 East
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- Australia’s thylacine has been extinct for almost 100 years, but a group of the country’s scientists say they will have it roaming the wilds again in a matter of years.
Having received a $15m funding windfall, they are embarking on a project to bring the so-called Tasmanian tiger back to life and are hoping the technology they develop will also help save endangered species from extinction.
But many leading scientists dismiss it as fanciful, claiming the money would be better spent elsewhere.
101 East meets the scientists behind the ambitious project to bring thylacine back to life.
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All i can say is Im really glad I declined Mary's offer to be involved with this production. The trouble with ALL MEDIA OUTLETS is, every single one of you have an agenda on how you will write "the story". It is never organic and natural. It is always steered down a path of what the producer/director thinks the story should be.
To top that off, you always want people like me to sign a media release form and give us zero say in how we are portrayed and what information we want the world to know about. I have seen this done to me on literally dozens of occasions in the past 8 years. Your music of choice for the entire segment in the mole creek pub is an insult. And the icing on the cake is the final scene in this article where the "local witness" is pro gene editing, just so we can all see another freakshow of a thylacine in a cage. Biased, unbalanced, and I am so glad I decided to have none of my words in it, and twisted to suit your story tellers idea of wtf is going on down here...
I bet this documentary's budget is higher than Avatar's budget. 😅
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Natural extinction is one thing. But extinction my man is quite another. Bring back the Tasmanian Tiger.
and take back man..
They will fail. It's a money grab, they're taking advantage of Aussies guilt for the extinction.
Mammoths haven't been brought back and they're closely related to asian elephants! Passenger pigeons haven't been brought back.
With advancements you can bring back an extinct animal with a close relative. Tasmanian tigers have absolutely no close relatives, the closest is a small marsupial rodent.
We are perfectly Natural; not the first to imitate others; to wear clothing; to create rituals attached to mating; music; we're just here to save the whole shebang from asteroids; and take it to a new planet when we must. We should bring the tiger back because the process is essential to reconstruct life when we get where we're going; just like God did when he got here. And we're in HIs image because we have quickly learned almost all the skills we need to do it again. Hyenas are just as pretty/ ugly; but any bringback will do; it's the method we must perfect.
I agree humans wiped them out so why not replace them, and not just the Tasmanian tiger but all species that have been hunted to extinction because of human greed.
That is true if you believe man is part of nature.
At the same time, Tasmanian authorities keep logging ancient forests. 400-500 year old trees are being turned into wood chips or paper (yeah, we're letting ancient trees being turned into toilet paper).
Mudshovel, The forests that they log are remnant Gondwana forests - ancient.
Horrible I will never look out Scott’s toilet paper, the same horrible
Boooooo
Bidets ftw 💩🚿
They continuously do this here in North America as well, it’s absolutely vile. Taking a life of something that’s been growing for centuries (and sometimes over 1000 years), to turn it into something that people use once and then throw out. Selfishness at its best.
I hope they manage to bring this beautiful creature back. I love that some creatures have been brought back from the brink of extinction and are now thriving. It brings hope. I hope we can continue to save these creatures that we have endangered so.
The sad truth is, what they bring bac isnt actually going to be a Thylacine.. You cant truly bring something back. Much like with Jurassic Park, you can only create something very very similar. Even they were saying it wouldnt be 100%. They're hoping to get as close as they can with 99. something %. What they make is going to be a lab animal that greatly resembles something long dead. Its just the sad truth of it. And like the gentleman was saying.. They've not got enough room for the animals they have. Let alone another entire species that will cause chaos in the ecosystem while it finds its legs. This isnt like the reintroduction of wolves to yellowstone.. this is something entirely different. Where with Yellowstone we had living animals to bring in and overpopulation of prey items, here we have severely endangered populations that could never sustain a higher predator like the Thylacine.. It just cant be done and remain sustainable..
I’m so thankful there was atleast a film of the old tasi tiger 😢
Both sides bring valid points. This topic deserves a more heated debate among the people. I wish we could spend more time debating what animals to bring back and how to restore environments and less time fighting over politics and culture.
I'm encouraged to see that none of the skeptics interviewed here are geneticists. Everyone who works professionally with DNA seems to think it will eventually work.
nice! 🎉
Its solid science. Its just a matter of funding, protocols and time
Of course, they're funding depends on it! LOL A banker won't tell you mortgages are scams.
If they havent been able to bring back passanger pigeons on mammoths [which are closely related to asian elephants], no way they bring back thylacine
There are plenty of animal specimens to collect DNA 🧬 from... Any gaps can be filled in with DNA from the related living species... And there will always be natural selection to clean up the process...
@@trvth1spretty sure they will bring back Mammoths 🦣... There is also a climate change component there... Mammoths will convert near arctic forests to grasslands... Lowering 🌡️ temperatures... I hope Colossal Bioscience animal resurrection is paired with Neuralink brain computer interfaces... That could make it easier to identify animal health issues, maybe even nudge them to preferred habitat...
There were some very good points that aren’t discussed often.
1. Releasing a Thylacine into the wild won’t happen anytime soon. While they’re working on resurrecting one, the Tasmanian forests are continuing to be cut down and by the time they’ve made a Thylacine there may not even be a suitable environment to release it to.
2. There are many more extinct species that are more feasible to try to bring back, the issue simply being that they aren’t well-known to the public and thus are less likely to draw in funding.
I love the Thylacine just as much as the next advocate, if not more. But there seems to be a theme here where we aren’t prioritizing what we STILL have and we’re just wanting what we don’t have. Like they said, not only are habitats dwindling, but also roads serve as significant threats, and currently endangered species are very much not in need of a new predator.
While I’m excited about the possibility of seeing a Thylacine(?) one day, I’d have to agree with the biologists that our priorities and funding are probably not in the right place in the current stage
Do you have any idea just how much uninhabited Bushland there is in the South West of Tasmania? Back in 2001 my wife and I took the kids on a trip to Tasmania. While on the road between Strahan and Queenstown on the west coast, both my wife and I clearly saw a large dog like animal come out of the bush, cross the road and, with one leap, climb up the embankment (at least 2 - 2.5 metres high) on the other side. Unfortunately, it was too far away & too quick to get a detailed look but, the animal in question was too big to be a feral cat or dog. Until my dying day, I'm convinced that what we saw was a Thylacine. True story.
@@bradwilliams1691 bro did you even read my comment? I’m not arguing about whether or not they exist
It would be funny, if after spending millions of dollars to successfully bring back the Tasmanian Tiger, a remote population of existing Thylacine were discovered alive and well.
The extinction of the Thylacine was particularly tragic! There have been several unconfirmed sightings!
It will look, run, and be as big as a Thylacine, but the first noise it will make is squeeak! 😂
this is so sad, what a beautiful animal/
I really hope that we can bring the Tasmanian Tiger back. Just like the Southern White Rhino.🙏
Fascinating. While I agree with the chief scientist of the Australian museum that Colossal should also be using the funding & technology to help bring back & conserve less charismatic species, but I do understand why they're using the Thylacine as it's a more popular species & thus would bring in the money. Either way, I hope we can bring back & breed recently extinct species, whether they be mighty as a mammoth or as small as the Koʻolau spurwing fly, as well as help struggling species still with us, such as the Sumatran rhino, Hawaiian crow, Pinta Island tortoise, Black-footed ferret, & the Tasmanian devil, just to name a few.
Agreed. Bringing back a mouse would be much easier but the company would go bankrupt before that first mouse is born.
Colossal is working on helping to save the North African 🌍 white rhinos 🦏... When the population of animals dwindles to a small enough number, inbreeding becomes a serious problem... So Colossal clones a bunch of the animals in question, with DNA from various dead animals... The technology Colossal develops can be extended to extinct giraffes 🦒 in India or extinct giant sloths 🦥 in South America... And the technology can be used to make it easier to clone prized cows, sheep, goats, etc...
There is always a reason they have gone extinct now until you remove that there is no point worrying about this subject at all
Can they bring the forest and way of life back also ?
Very possible, IF there is enough commitment to it.
Where will they live?
Where will all the endangered animals already here, living breathing endangered species,
going to live!? In the AI smart cities?! Mars?!
Fascist science says, hunt them to extinction, and clone them, but it will never works as neatly as they've planned.
What else have they cloned? -and not reported to the public on?-just to pretend it is new science on the tv.
Why can't we save Rhinos, or Elephants? Okapi! Whales?
Maybe, these scientists need to learn a bit more, about the science of the real world, before practicing life like it is a game of spore: they in truth know little about the repercussions of what they create in their moreau mad labs, and they share with civilians even less.
Human eradication is needed for that : /
Yes of course
Bring back the tiger, mates, and this time look after them. Give the people some inspiration. Life begets life.
I say why not . This kinda advancement can bring on so much more awesome things .
So much critic's, let's bring back that beautiful creature!
Excellent documentary on the cutting -edge science , worth watching.
Its about time to do that. So many endangered species right now are rapidly dying to extinction. We have to do something! Not all governments care about these animals.
Back in 2001 my wife and I took the kids on a trip to Tasmania. While on the road between Strahan and Queenstown on the west coast, both my wife and I clearly saw a large dog like animal come out of the bush, cross the road and, with one leap, climb up the embankment (at least 2 - 2.5 metres high) on the other side. Unfortunately, it was too far away & too quick to get a detailed look but, the animal in question was too big to be a feral cat or dog. Until my dying day, I'm convinced that what we saw was a Thylacine. True story.
Lets bring back the Dodol bird !!
Britannica:
The dodo bird is one of the most famous examples of human-induced extinction. A large, flightless bird once native to the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean... ... the dodo was bigger than a turkey and weighed about 23 kilograms. It had blue-gray feathers, a large head and beak, and small, useless wings. Although the birds were terrestrial, their bone structure was hollow like that of birds that fly. Dodos likely nested on the ground, and it is thought that they laid a single egg. Unfortunately, the species was wiped out less than 200 years after its discovery. The birds were discovered by Portuguese sailors around 1507.
The birds had no natural predators, so they were unafraid of humans.
These sailors, and others to come, quickly decimated the dodo population as an easy source of fresh meat for their voyages. As humans settled on the island, loss of habitat further threatened the birds.
Humans also brought animals, such as pigs and monkeys, which ate the vulnerable eggs and competed with the dodos for food. Over-harvesting of the birds, combined with habitat loss and a losing competition with the newly introduced animals, was too much for the dodos to survive.
The last dodo was killed in 1681, and the species was lost forever to extinction.
I agree that all extinct animals should be resurrected if it is possible. We owe that to nature. Both Tasmanian tiger and Mammoth, and other animals that are no longer here. I am a big fan of that. 👍
We also need more forest for them to live not cutting trees
You what?!
Lol
A good way to ask for forgiveness from the Mother Nature
Do we really? Extinction is completely natural and has happened to numerous species over Earth's history. Bringing any of them back would prevent new spies from evolving to fill in these niches.
All extinct animals. Are you sure about that? Do you want dinosaurs and oversized mammals now.
Love your work Nic an absolute gentleman and a man who thinks before he talks.Would love to meet you sometime✌️Someone said you live in Richmond which has become one of my favourite weekend drives.Hope to see you one day and say G’day 👍
Spent a lot of time in the Meander valley and Mole creek; never seen a thylacine. The pub does a great parma though and if your lucky you might see the platypus in the stream behind the pub.
As a very young teen I visited Tassie with my school and we came across a lil out of the way museum off the beaten track and inside was a stuffed Tassie tiger, we all got to touch and talk about it not realizing how important it was, and apparently there was only 2 in existance and both were thought to be lost. I believe this to be the tiger scientists had been searching for as it still had soft tissue and loads of usable of DNA attached. We had no idea at the time how important that stuffed tiger would become to science and the world!!
Stop lying
@@limhan3209 You wish, your just jealous!! 🤣😂🤣
The thylacine the scientists gathered usable DNA from was in a museum called the 'Tasmanian museum & art gallery' not some random museum off the beaten track 😅 google it...cool story though 👌
@@Allannah_Of_Rome u may of seen a thylacine in a little museum somewhere on a school trip I'm not denying that. I'm just saying it's not the Tassie tiger that provided DNA samples
the money to fund this project versus say a restoration initiative comes from different sources. and as was said in this video, learning how to dextinct something whether we follow through or not will provide us with a whole range of incredible tools we can use in conservation today
Btw these creatures (Tasmanian Tigers 🐅) also existed in Indonesia... So it is a good opportunity for both Australia 🌏 and Indonesia to cooperate... And the technology could have applications for Australian and Indonesian farmers as well...
This is extremely fascinating, but I also have mixed feelings about it.
what is it
I agree something could go wrong too
Like if we bring back Neanderthals...
@@larryc1616 Nice. Those Geico commercials can make a comeback
A very good book by Robert Paddle may still be available. 'The last Tasmanian tiger. Not a u tube clip. A real book by an unbiased person. I met him 50 years ago. He was my science teacher then. Was already researching for his future book.
The Tasmanian tiger was not the only victim. It was exterminated by the British in much the same way that the original Aboriginal owners and inhabitants were eradicated. Then it was humans with bounties on their heads being hunted down, poisoned and trapped.
In Tasmania, the British conducted their most successful and blatant genocide project that occurred in their Empire. There's no undoing that evil.
It needs to be brought back. Make it a start.
I get 2 nerve block shots to the back of my head. It works really well but I also rely on chiropractor and massage therapy.
This is super cool work!
Honestly, I don't see any dychotomy between preserving currently endangered animals (which has to be a State task) with these private/University attempts to resurrect these animals once killed by human. It's all about conservation, isn't it?
They could get it done in less than 10 years. But they won't get it done because the funding is part of their income. They are getting paid well for 10 years. It's like road construction. They can get the job done quicker, but they stretch it out so they get paid more.
If you see a thylacine as you wake up, that's called having a hypnopompic hallucination possibly. Not a black and white question of being right or lying.
As an Aussie, this is really exciting to me. I hope it happens in my life-time. I get emotional about how we lost this animal.
"But it was raining so couldn't find foot prints? What? That is the perfect opportunity to have found foot prints.
That jaw opens up bigger than anything I could expect to encounter in the wild.
Imagine if the baby turns out to be a dog sized animal that gnaws holes into your house for winter.
I'm sure humans will feed them and keep as a pet
Pairing critically endangered animals (particularly dangerous ones) with a Neura-link chip might be helpful... If it could make the animal avoid humans more...
I truly hope these guys succed in their quest BUT PROPERLY! Also, I hope these creatures will be kept 'wild' and NOT IN CAGES. The may have to be initially to be fair, for their own protection and until there is a number of them. May be a bit much to ask (of man) but fingers crossed
They'll be better off in cages where they can get a constant supply of food and water and where they can be protected from the elements.
@@k.g.b.1150 the ones in the wild are surviving well, just last week one was seen 30 minutes from me in SA! There are loads of sightings...if not thousands...on the mainland and Tassie.
Pairing Colossal Biosciences genetic resurrection with Neuralink's brain computer interfaces will be helpful... If you have a microchip in 10% or 5% of the animals being clones... You can get a good idea of the environmental pressures the animal faces, it's preferred habitat, conflicts with man, etc.
I have given $$$ to this project. And also to bring back the Great Auk.
I remember reading about an island off of Newfoundland still covered with Great Auk droppings and bones. Not sure if there's any viable DNA in there but there was a lot of remains.
thank you scott!
Hope they succeed in bringing back the Thylacine.🤞
Thylacine rat...🐀
@@fidelcatsro6948 Thylacine dunnart
@@adamgallyot9063 looks like mouse or rat to my cat.. it says yum yum😹
@@fidelcatsro6948 its a small marsupial, may your cat know about this :)
@@adamgallyot9063 my cat says it might taste better..😹👍🏿
All the best with your project ⁉️‼️👏👍
Fascinating Documentary ❤️
Thanks for your positive feedback, dear An Q. We appreciate it. 🙌
I find it frustrating that the tumour free devils are released near roads. My neighbour had them released on his property about 250m from a busy road and of course the devils are drawn to the dead wallaby’s carcasses hit by car’s.
That makes no sense, after going to so much effort why on earth would they not release them out in the middle of nowhere so that ending up as roadkill is less likely. Sometimes intelligent people aren't very smart.
I couldn’t believe how many dead wallabies there were on the side of the road in Tasmania
@@knuthamsun6106 yep although the wallaby population fluctuate’s the estimate of population is 5 million in Tasmania. In spring there is an explosion in numbers with new offspring but about now in Autumn and over winter as food becomes less available they become infested with ticks and internal parasites and starvation brings them to grassy roadsides where they are hit by cars.
Quite often you will see them on the side of the road in the middle of the day looking like zombies (when healthy they forage in the open only at dawn and dusk), farmers used to be able to do a cull which reduced food competition and resulted in a healthier population over all but now its pretty usual to see many of them starve to death.
As an Australian...we should never have hunted this species into extinction. This may correct a human error more ignorant humans may have enforced upon this world... they deserve saving. X
I think it's still very well our there . I think from what I've noticed they love the rain. Maybe do a expedition when the weather is wet just a thought
Agreed 👍
It's hard watching the parts where they're captive and slowly starving to death. How can humans be so cruel 😢
saddest tragic story that we all watched such a majestic beautiful animal left unappreciated by man kind. we owe it to them for letting them all down . all animals deserve protection.
An interesting thought I had when I saw this was, IF and if the sightings in the wild of the Tasmanian Tiger hold any truth at all, and it was possible to bring back a pair, tag them/geo-location and put them in a location where sightings have been and see what happens. But do it in secret, if it was announced to the world that would do more harm than good. But put protections in order, Non disclosures in place and when there is a bounce in population if any and where it can be controlled then show it off. Do it once and do it properly the world can enjoy it then.
well said indeed friend
Im excited to c one.
Bringing the Tasmanian Tiger back won't solve the environmental problems when the people are still there creating the issues. The problem is and always has been humanity.
A sad story that's become all too common. We are not taking care of the world.
Good reporting as usual, Al Jazeera. Cheers from sunny Vienna, Scott
I do believe a shorter cut would be to send an expedition of world wide scientists into these lands to actually find a living Tasmanian Tiger alive. I do believe it is virtually impossible that all of them were killed, I've heard many stories of people who claimed to have seen the animal, so before spending millions of dollars (which I do love the project and hope it will work), I'd go for a full research to find it.
Possible that Thylacines still live in Papa New Guinea. Natives have long spoken about stripped canid predators stalking the remote jungles and highlands. I think it would be a good place to look.
@@monarchist1838 true, not a long time ago they found a new species of wild dogs there
@@EdoFarinaXRP Until someone can produce a photo of one any search would turn into a blind bigfoot hunt.
@@hurrdurrmurrgurr how could tasmanian tigers exist and reproduce in the wild for 100 years without any CREDIBLE proof, pictures, videos?
Sounds like people don't want to accept that people killed them off. It is sad.
Back in 2001 my wife and I took the kids on a trip to Tasmania. While on the road between Strahan and Queenstown on the west coast, both my wife and I clearly saw a large dog like animal come out of the bush, cross the road and, with one leap, climb up the embankment (at least 2 - 2.5 metres high) on the other side. Unfortunately, it was too far away & too quick to get a detailed look but, the animal in question was too big to be a feral cat or dog. Until my dying day, I'm convinced that what we saw was a Thylacine. True story.
As a Irish person I have always been very interested in the Tasmanian Tiger to be honest every single time I think about Australia I can't get out of my head of the horrible treatment people did to the Tasmanian Tiger although it would be awesome to see the Tasmanian Tiger given a second chance of life to rewrite the wrong that was committed in the past if the Tasmanian Tiger does come back to life it may want revenge on Humanity for the heartless and evil treatment of it's race although we have done our best to stop the hunting of animals The Tasmanian Tiger may not be convinced as we are so it's important that we must be extremely careful with the Tasmanian Tiger if it is brought back to life
Incrível parabens. Grande abraço Brasil
I won't stop believing the tasmanian tiger is extinct until it's announced with a picture that's it's back
It was discoed that in New Zealand there was a species of Wallaby here that was apparently extinct in Australia and has been restored the Australia.
Some will be out in very remote areas. They have learned to avoid humans no doubt
I hope it works. By the way, plz remember the "Heckrind" . It is not the same. But it is very closed to the aurochs.
private companies should never EVER be allowed to mess with the natural order of things. There should be a 99.9% of scientific consensus world wide if there is to be a change as big as BRINGING AN EXCTING SPECIES BACK through CLONING
Bringing these animals back I believe would spark more interest in animals and the environment overall. Since it's a species wiped out in recent history there is no ethical reason not to. The concerns about the expense are sort of a drop in the bucket, compared to the amount of money wasted on various less effective attempts to get people to care about the environment. This is interesting, it's a hook.
The technology developed by Colossal Biosciences could also be used to resurrect extinct Indian 🦒 Giraffes or South American Giant Sloths 🦥... It can also be used to make it easier to clone prized cows 🐄, sheep 🐑, and goats 🐐... Btw Colossal Biosciences resurrecting various extinct or critically endangered species could be paired with Neuralink... Imagine if 5% of the resurrected animals had a Neura-link chip... You could use that to help determine what health issues that animal was having, pressures it was facing in the wild... Habitat the animal prefers or conflicts the animal is having with humans... All useful for conservation...
Guy even says they'd be so valuable they couldn't even live in the wild. What kind of existence is that?
Absolutely non, especially when they live wild now.
bro they don’t
I would I imagine the infamy would go to their head and it wouldn’t be long before they were permanently a fixture at Tavern 42, doing shots with the barmaids and lines of crack in the restroom.
Why bother wasting time and money reviving something that is still alive and well on the Australian main land.
Really mysterious animal
Humans killed it we should bring it back
So it can be isolated in small pockets of Woodlands that might be left only to die out again because we keep cutting trees down
170 Tassie Devil road kills in 18 months in one stretch of road! That's terrible, although that's the only time I got to see one, just hours after it was hit. Perhaps they should consider speed bumps, like the Douglas Shire has done in North Queensland to protect cassowaries. But road departments hate speed bumps.
If they could produce a viable in-between, they could work on further upgrading it.
Why not grow food on the moon or something instead?
@@mizzo8341 Are you stupid?
There are just too many people on the earth. It's the cause of most of the problems here. I'm proud to say my husband and I will not be grandparents.
@@mizzo8341 Just grow the food here on Earth. Why would it on the moon???
@Casian that is the key. Developing a partial species furthers the science and technology behind it which will lead to a full clone eventually.
Wow how fascinating!!!!!
Wow if they succeed, I'll bet the CIA will get the technology to bring back the Nepheliums.
This topic can turn into the ultimate rabbit hole.
The best way to conserve nature and its creatures is no reporting it’s sighting and pray humanity learns to live with nature as fellow beings assuming the risks of living with nature and integrating urbanization with nature so we humans see native nature since birth for our entire lives as usual and normal part of our surroundings .
This is what science is for, please bring back the extinct animals who were killed by humans. Dodo should be next in line 😊
Colossal Biosciences is working on resurrecting the Dodo 🦤 bird... The science involved in cloning the Dodo 🦤 can also help with agricultural cloning (Ostriches, Emu, Chicken 🐔, Ducks 🦆, etc)...
Those people in the pub must have seen Big Foot and the Loch Ness Monster too.
@ 21:00 does anyone know the name of the lookout?
@Permanent Frown 🤨 thank you. I’ll put that on my tassie destinations
I've been hearing this for decades.
Tasmanian Tiger and Wooly mamoth should be here already.
Exactly. Not happening anytime soon.
5% genetic difference is pretty massive (of course there are many variables, like which 5%) - where will they get the missing 5%
5% is more than that between humans and chimps, about 4%
They are completely missing the fact that all Thylacinids are extinct. The closest relative to Thylacinus Cynocephalus is T. Potens. The Fat-tailed Dunnart is just the closest extant relative to T. Cynocephalus. It's really all they have and I wish they explained that better in the video for people who don't know.
They're using dunnart dna to fix the gaps as they are related.. dunnarts are too small to birth one though so they are using artificial wombs in a lab ... so the first ones will be test tube babies
@@apokkalyps698.8% of our DNA is shared with chimps. We share 80% DNA with dogs. And, 70% with fish. 50% with a 🍌 BANANA!
@@oswaldcannon9483we have the DNA of thylacine. They will use that to reanimate the DNA.
That would be absolutely fantastically amazing accomplishment
facts
I’d love to see it happen !
We’ve all seen Jurassic Park right? It’s biosyn all over again.
Sure🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
Skynet will deal with it...
@@cameronspence4977 😂
@@cameronspence4977 jut remember. If they can do it with an extinct species how long before they mess with our food source or US?! There was a Chinese doctor that actually used gene editing on woman who delivered a baby just a few years ago. The genes he turned off has the potential to harm her baby. He was arrested and now this child is being monitored to see what the consequences of gene editing has done to the child. But I guess you have to crack a few eggs to make an omelet. (See what I did there?) 😂
That or Ingen
LETS GO THEY BRINGING BACK THE MOA BIRD AND THE WOOLLY MAMMOTH, AND OTHER GIANT DEER
they will succeed in bringing it back sooner than you think
They need very large wildlife reserves like in Africa. When Tigers are seen killing sheep then they can be trapped and moved to the reserves. Not shot and killed
That museum dude is so negative. You can't declare something is impossible without making an attempt.
I've lost count of the number of times I've heard this. Still haven't seen one.
all the project has been waiting for is money
Building a cell takes time
Is it possible?
Is anyone still working on the gastric brooding toad?
We should be obligated to bring back species we directly caused the extinction of. Passenger pigeons for example. The tylaciene was wiped out by humans hunting them. We need to correct this. Mammoths died do to climate change humans had nothing to really do with. So did the short faced bear and sabertoothed cat. We should not mess with these animals. But the rinos and other species we hunted to extinction should be brought back.
Let's take the rhino for instance where are they going to live when every African insists on having 8 children each there's nowhere for the animals to live anymore .these people don't understand the concept of a condom
@James the problem isn't the African people. That's is a very ignorant way of thinking. It's actually the ivory market that has caused such atrocities. The Chinese love ivory and have been hunting these animals into extinction. Directly and indirectly. If there was a complete annihilation of that market then rhinos and elephants can roam freely without being poached.
@@James-kv6kb I take your point but in fact the world is undergoing a demographic collapse right now. Yes sub Saharan Africa is the last place to follow this real trend but even there fertility is trending down to that of the rest of the world - below replacement.
I have a problem with bringing back extinct animals. Does their niche and environment still exist? Would one only create a single animal without caring for its natural propensity to breed? How would one protect the animal in its natural environment?
Nothing took the thylacine's place after its extinction, so the niche is pretty open
Many animals would have to be cloned. From there natural selection (the animals that survive and breed) would gradually fill habitat... The Tasmanian 🐅 Tiger used to live in North Australia, Papau New Guinea and Indonesia 🌏...
I’m not in Australia however if I was & I saw a Tasmanian Tiger I’d not tell anyone because I think it would bring too much attention to them from humans & continue to endanger any of them if they are still alive(I hope they are) .
Well, I would love if this can be accomplished, but it seems impossible.
Despite the romance of restoring extinct species such as thylacines or mammoths, to me the major question is. When you have them where are you going to put them? The thylacine seems to have a slightly better chance of fitting into a matching ecosystem than cold-adapted mammoths. I feel the problem needs plenty of careful thought in order to be successful, but it's fun to think about.
most of Eastern Siberia and north eastern canada as well as greenland is 95% uninhabited by people.
Tasmanian Tigers 🐅 used to live in Indonesia as well as Australia 🌏... Both countries should be involved in resurrecting them, ideally. Improvements in cloning can make it easier to clone a prized cows 🐄, sheep 🐑, or goat 🐐.
@@teovu5557mammoths 🦣 also used to live around the Baltic Sea... So you could get scientists from Sweden, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia involved in resurrecting the creature...
@@user-iu6cr6pt7s those areas are to warm and populated for future mammoths to live.
Also I dont think it is important for only nations who had mammoths tens of thousads of years ago to join in the research. All and any scientist can help out.
In March 2005, Australian news magazine The Bulletin, as part of its 125th anniversary celebrations, offered a $1.25 million reward for the safe capture of a live thylacine. When the offer closed at the end of June 2005, no one had produced any evidence of the animal's existence. An offer of $1.75 million has subsequently been offered by a Tasmanian tour operator, Stewart Malcolm. Trapping is illegal under the terms of the thylacine's protection, so any reward made for its capture is invalid, since a trapping license would not be issued.
all of that is moot because there aren’t any left
I'd take a 1,750,000 dollar prize to pay off the 100,000 dollar fine for illegal trapping.
If you replaced every time they say Thylacine with Dinosaur, isn't it exactly the plot of Jurassic Park?
This animal was an integral component of Australian ecosystems, as Lions and Leopards are in Africa, so it is a myth that they only belong in Tasmania. Aboriginal people bear as much responsibility as Europeans for Thylacine extinction, because they are known to have hunted it on the mainland, and they also favoured the Dingo at the expense of the Thylacine, which further hastened its disappearance from the Mainland. If they can be restored, then they should be widely re-introduced on the mainland, and by doing so they might also help to combat foxes and feral cats on the Australian mainlande.
The Tasmanian 🐅 Tiger also used to live in Indonesia... Ideally 🌏 Australia, Indonesia and Papau New Guinea could be involved in helping to bring the animal back... Great opportunity for Colossal Biosciences to improve cloning technology which can also be used to clone prized cows 🐄, goats 🐐 and sheep 🐑...
thylacine meanwhile in the heavens:
not all humans are bad afterall
Glad Indonesian government still recovered Komodo dragon from extinction
“Welcome to Thylacine Park“
While bringing back the Thylacine seems like a good idea in some ways, it would be really great to develop a way for creatures to have immunity to Cane Toad poison.
There are no cane toads in Tasmania
@@nevillekitchener7987 Those tigers can be found at Australia, which has some dangerous and poisonous or venomous animals
Immunity to cane toad poisoning.. yeah, it would be nice to cure cancer too..
Also immunity from the worse species of all (The greedy human)
@@mariatorres5563 so insightfull, did you think of that on your own? Omg, like total genius..
I just really hope we find one in the wild before they release any of the new ones.
Well even if we find one we would probably make more to increase the genetic biodiversity as the species would be inbred
As an Australian "I think its human arrogance to think we didn't kill the last one". These animals were the last survivors of a species that once roamed the mainland & had already become extinct. They had to survive the coming of the Aborigines, then the English & then the introduction of foxes & other feral animals. Having been targeted to the point of extinction most likely had a terminal effect on any hidden populations over the course of time. I once saw a DNA experiment where Thylacine DNA was died with blue marker & placed in a mouse embryo. The baby was born with the DNA marker in its back leg.