Scientists: The extinct Tasmanian tiger could return to life within 10 years

Scientists in Australia believe they are on track to bring the extinct Tasmanian tiger back to life, and say the first live cub may be born within the next decade.

It is widely believed that the Tasmanian tiger, whose scientific name is thylacine, disappeared from mainland Australia 2,000 years ago.

The last known species died in 1936 in captivity at Beaumaris Park in Hobart on the Australian island of Tasmania.

Andrew Pask, of the University of Melbourne, said on Tuesday that the newly announced partnership between his lab for Thylacine Integrated Genetic Restoration Research and US-based Colossal Biosciences would allow scientists to take "giant leaps to conserve endangered marsupials in Australia and tackle the huge challenge of restoring the animals." The extinct we lost."

"Through this partnership, I now believe that in ten years' time, we can have the first living thylacine cub since it was hunted to extinction nearly a century ago," Pask said.

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