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Should the Tassie tiger be brought back to life? Have your say

Juvenile Tasmanian tiger specimens, or thylacines, preserved in jars. (Supplied: Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery)

Scientists think they can bring thylacines back to life within the next decade and the ABC is collecting your vote, your insights and questions about this de-extinction project.

There is a plan to edit the genome of a related species — the dunnart — to resemble the thylacine's DNA, then use another relative as a surrogate to gestate the reincarnated baby thylacines. 

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