Cientistas buscam “ressureição” do tigre-da-Tasmânia, extinto há quase 100 anos

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O projeto é uma colaboração com a Colossal Biosciences, fundada pelo empresário de tecnologia Ben Lamm e pelo geneticista George Church, da Harvard Medical School

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Do tamanho de um lobo, o tigre-da-Tasmânia desapareceu há cerca de 2.000 anos em praticamente todos os lugares, exceto na ilha australiana da Tasmânia

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O último de sua espécie, que vivia em cativeiro, chamado Benjamin, morreu em 1936 no zoológico de Beaumaris, na Tasmânia

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