So it’s perhaps not surprising that, in the 200-year history of collecting and cataloguing various thylacine specimens for museum exhibits, there has been a bit of a mix-up. But two specimens, sent from the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, turned out to be either quolls or Tasmanian devils. 'Sightings' of extinct Tasmanian tiger prompt search in Queensland Read moreIt all contributes to the ultimate end goal of bringing back a thylacine, a project that is technologically distant but theoretically possible. “As far as we know the Tasmanian tiger is completely gone,” Hipsley said. “But it might be something where we can use another animal’s cells as a scaffold and then insert the genome to try and reconstruct the Tasmanian tiger.

Source: The Guardian February 21, 2018 00:55 UTC