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Thylacine in sentence

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There was a marvelous animal, a marsupial wolf called the thylacine in Tasmania, south of Australia, called the Tasmanian tiger.
In the case of the thylacine, regrettably, we shot every one that we saw.
The thylacine looks a bit, to most people, like a dog, or maybe like a tiger, because it has stripes.
Then, unfortunately, the next sad part of the thylacine story is that Europeans arrived in 1788, and they brought with them the things they valued, and that included sheep.
They took one look at the thylacine in Tasmania, and they thought, hang on, this is not going to work.
Wild dogs did eat a few of the sheep, but the thylacine got a bad rap.
These are photos of the last surviving thylacine, Benjamin, who was in the Beaumaris Zoo in Hobart.
And I was studying skulls, trying to figure out their relationships to other sorts of animals, and I saw this jar, and here, in the jar, was a little girl thylacine pup, perhaps six months old.
But this was 1990, and I asked my geneticist friends, couldn't we think about going into this pup and extracting DNA, if it's there, and then somewhere down the line in the future, we'll use this DNA to bring the thylacine back?
We went into that pup to see what was in it, and we did find thylacine DNA.
If the goal here was to get the DNA out and use the DNA down the track to try to bring a thylacine back, what we didn't want happening when the information was shoved into the machine and the wheel turned around and the lights flashed, was to have a wizened old horrible curator pop out the other end of the machine.
And then the Tasmanian devil is going to pop a thylacine out the south end.
Thylacine, Tasmanian devil?
They took some of this same pickled thylacine DNA and they spliced it into a mouse genome, but they put a tag on it so that anything that this thylacine DNA produced would appear blue-green in the mouse baby.
In other words, if thylacine tissues were being produced by the thylacine DNA, it would be able to be recognized.
And that tells us if we can get that genome back together, get it into a live cell, it's going to produce thylacine stuff.
That's classic thylacine habitat.
And the animals in those areas were the same that were there when the thylacine was around.
If it had not been illegal to keep these thylacines as pets then, would the thylacine be extinct now?