About 100 years ago, Tasmanian tiger considered extinct. The last specimen for which data is available lived at the Hobart Zoo in Australia. His surviving photographs are in black and white, showing his antiquity.
The Tasmanian tiger was not actually a tiger. He was known that way because of the stripes that covered his body. it was a marsupial guarding and carrying their young, as kangaroos do.
Since its extinction, there has been much talk about the supposed emergence of people who will resist its disappearance, but it has never been possible to prove it. But in a few years its existence will be a fact backed by science. To achieve this, a group of Australian and American scientists embarked on a million-dollar project whose aim was to unearth a new specimen. It is expected to be “ready” in ten years. The process will not be easy. They will first need to take DNA samples from other marsupial counterparts, and based on surviving data on Tasmanian tigers, genetically manipulating them After such a complex process in the laboratory, her birth finally takes place.
All of the above may sound like science fiction, but it isn’t. Science has progressed at an incredible pace recently, and it is scientifically and technically possible to achieve it. In fact, cloning animals or, as in this case, giving birth to an extinct animal is already part of the supply and demand market. However, there is an ethical component in all of this, which deserves not only consideration, but also a conscientious and compromise-based arrangement. It is necessary to harmonize national and international legislation in this regard and, of course, to close existing legal gaps. Science is making giant strides and even if legislators fail to progress, at least keep up with it so that the legal criteria to be applied are always clear.