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Re: Australian museum drops bid to clone extinct Tasmanian "tiger"

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Subject: Re: Australian museum drops bid to clone extinct Tasmanian "tiger"
From: Dann Pigdon <dannj@alphalink.com.au>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 09:39:38 +1100
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Tim Williams wrote:

> I'm assuming the miscreants didn't catch a live thylacine.

A safe assumption...

> It saddens me to say this, but the poor old thylacine is almost certainly
> extinct.

According to the 50 year rule, giant pandas were once extinct too.
Although the Coelacanth probably holds the record. :)

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