{"id":658,"date":"2022-08-22T19:41:24","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T19:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/?p=658"},"modified":"2023-06-04T16:52:32","modified_gmt":"2023-06-04T16:52:32","slug":"scientists-to-bring-tasmanian-tiger-back-extinction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/scientists-to-bring-tasmanian-tiger-back-extinction\/","title":{"rendered":"Back from the dead: How scientists aim to bring Tasmanian tiger back from extinction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tasmanian tiger has been extinct for almost a century, but scientists now claim they are able to resurrect the lost species and return it to the wild.<\/p>\n<p>An organisation specialising in &#8220;breakthrough genetic engineering&#8221; and which describes itself as a &#8220;de-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/extinction\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">extinction<\/a>\u00a0company&#8221;, has said it has already begun work on bringing back the species, which is properly known as the thylacine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To Learn More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/independentpremium\/world\/tasmanian-tiger-thylacine-extinct-revive-mammoth-b2146995.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tasmanian tiger has been extinct for almost a century, but scientists now claim they are able to resurrect the [&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-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-thylacine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658","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=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colossal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}