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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Science
Adam Morton

How a ‘putrid’ find in a museum cupboard could be the key to bringing the Tasmanian tiger back to life

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The thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger, went extinct in 1936. Photograph: NFSA

Breakthroughs sometimes turn up in unexpected places. The researchers working on the international push to bring back the thylacine say they found theirs in a bucket in the back of a cupboard at a Melbourne museum.

It contained an astonishingly well-preserved head of the extinct marsupial, also known as the Tasmanian tiger.

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