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The genetics researchers have also expressed keen interest in bringing back the thylacine and the dodo.—New Atlas, 4 Mar. 2025 The company plans to recreate the mammoth, dodo, and Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, by editing the genome of each species’ closest living relative to make a hybrid animal that would be visually indistinguishable from its extinct forerunner.—Katie Hunt, CNN, 4 Mar. 2025 The team at Colossal Biosciences has started a number of de-extinction projects, including the dodo and thylacine, but its flagship project is the mammoth.—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 4 Mar. 2025 For the Tasmanian tiger or thylacine, Lamm said the pace of progress has been quicker than expected.—Katie Hunt, CNN, 16 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for thylacine
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Etymology
New Latin Thylacinus, genus of marsupials, from Greek thylakos sack, pouch
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