# De-extinction Company Aims to Resurrect the Tasmanian Tiger

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/de-extinction-company-aims-to-resurrect-the-tasmanian-tiger-2/
- Published: 2022-08-22T09:30:01-05:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

Image credit: Colossal Biosciences. Article by Kate Evans. Scientific American – August 16, 2022. The thylacine has long been an icon of human-caused extinction. In the 1800s and early 1900s, European colonizers in Tasmania wrongly blamed the dog-sized, tiger-striped, carnivorous marsupial for killing their sheep and chickens. The settlers slaughtered thylacines by the thousands, exchanging the animals’ skins for a government bounty. […] Click here to view original web page at www.scientificamerican.com Curated by Theresa Wysocki See Full Bio