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Originally posted by Azred:
Where did they get enough Tasmanian Tiger DNA for cloning? Which species will serve as the surrogate mother?
Even if they succeed, they won't be able to reestablish the species--there would be too few members with not enough genetic variance for viability. Even if they made a handful of them, they would be "unique" specimens in various zoos.
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They kept several embryoes and 'cubs' preserved. so they have a variety of speciments - And they will try to establish a viable population.
And don't discount the wholly mammoth - the russians have worked on that for some years - they simply plan to use elephants as surrogate mothers. They have allready produced a 'mammoth' by impregnating an elephant-egg with mommoth-sperm (and a little sience)