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Scientists from the US and Australia believe they're on the verge of reviving the Tasmanian tiger.
A whole thylacine head has been preserved in ethanol for 110 years .
DNA technology could help reintroduce the animal back into the wild.
Scientists think the species could serve an important role in Tasmania ’s ecosystem.
The last of the species died in a zoo in 1936 .
Colossal Sciences have completed the DNA of Tasmanian tiger DNA.
They hope to use gene editing to make the fat-tailed dunnart genome (its DNA code) more and more similar to the tiger samples.
The company wants to have the first calves born in late 2028 .
Many scientists are sceptical about how a species could go from lab to the wild.
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