{"id":655,"date":"2022-08-22T19:36:49","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T19:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/?p=655"},"modified":"2023-06-04T16:54:45","modified_gmt":"2023-06-04T16:54:45","slug":"scientists-planning-resurrection-of-tasmanian-tiger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/scientists-planning-resurrection-of-tasmanian-tiger\/","title":{"rendered":"De-extinction: scientists are planning the resurrection of the Tasmanian tiger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-xry7m2\">Scientists in Australia and the US have launched an ambitious multimillion-dollar project to bring back the thylacine, a marsupial that died out in the 1930s, and reintroduce it to its native <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/tasmania\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tasmania<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-xry7m2\">The thylacine, also known as the Tasmanian tiger, is the second undertaking by Colossal, a Texas-based biotechnology \u201cde-extinction\u201d company that last year announced it planned to use genetic engineering techniques to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2021\/sep\/13\/firm-bring-back-woolly-mammoth-from-extinction\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recreate the woolly mammoth and return it to the Arctic tundra<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>To Learn More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/aug\/16\/de-extinction-scientists-are-planning-the-multimillion-dollar-resurrection-of-the-tasmanian-tiger\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists in Australia and the US have launched an ambitious multimillion-dollar project to bring back the thylacine, a marsupial that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-thylacine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}