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Why de-extinction researchers are so enthusiastic about this skinned skull that has been preserved in ethanol for over a century

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More than 99.9% of thew species' genome has been completed, according to scientists,thank to "ancient DNA" that was taken from the cranium. This is what that implies . . .   gambar "I  am  the  only  person  who   wants  to  see  a  live   thylacine,"  says  Dr.  Jack  Ashby,   an  expert  on  Australian  mammals  and   assistant  director  of  the  Museum  of  Zoology  at   the  University  of  Cambridge. "For  one  reason ,  ecological  integrity  would  greatly  benefit  from  the   p resence  of  a  large   predator." However,  there  are  buts. Since  the  thylacine,  a  wolf-sized  and  shaped  carnivorous  marsupial,  went  extinct  decades   ago,  how...