((I was not sure were the post this, it falls into many categories.))
Pictures:
http://www.animalpicturesarchive.com/ArchOLD-2/1102937374.jpg
http://www.animalpicturesarchive.com/ArchOLD-2/1102937360.jpg
Films can be found here:
http://www.naturalworlds.org/thylacine/films/motion_film_footage.htm#film_7
Carnivorous marsupial Thylacinus cynocephalus, in the family Dasyuridae. It is doglike in appearance with a long tail, characteristic dark stripes on back and hindquarters, and measures nearly 2 m/6 ft from nose to tail tip. It was hunted to probable extinction in the 1930s, the last known Tasmanian wolf dying in Hobart Zoo, Tasmania, in 1936, but there are still occasional unconfirmed reports of sightings, both on the Australian mainland and in the Tasmanian mountains, its last known habitat.
A team of scientists at the Australian Museum, Sydney, has extracted DNA from a 134-year-old preserved Tasmanian wolf pup ((accidentally preserved in alcohol instead of formalin, thus retaining its DNA)) as the first stage in an attempt to recreate the extinct marsupial. The leader of the project and head of evolutionary biology at the Australian Museum, Dr Don Colgan, gave the project, at its outset in 2000, only an 8–10% chance of success. It would be the first cloning of an animal from dead DNA.
If this is a success, will this perhaps the start of cloning extinct animals like Caspian Tiger or the Quagga? Or maybe even dinosaurs? Is this a new hope to endangered animals and plants? Hope to the delicate food chain humans are dangerously close to destroying?