Can We Clone the Tasmanian Tiger? ~ with Professor Andrew Pask

The remarkable Thylacine (or 'TASMANIAN TIGER') was a carnivorous marsupial that existed in Australia and Tasmania up until 1936. DNA exists that could allow us to clone one - but should we?
MARK from Evolution Soup catches up with PROFESSOR ANDREW PASK from his home in Melbourne, Australia to talk about Thylacine history, biology, and how he was able to successfully sequence its genome.
Andrew Pask is the Professor of BioSciences the University of Melbourne. He has published over 100 papers on developmental genetics particularly using eutherian-marsupial comparisons. Of note, his recent work involved sequencing the genome of the extinct thylacine and was the feature article in Nature Ecology and Evolution.
02:06 Were you always interested in extinct animals?
03:31 Why did the Tasmanian Tiger go extinct?
06:57 Talk about the Thylacine & 'convergent evolution'.
09:52 FOOTAGE OF THYLACINE (Hobart Zoo, 1930s)
11:04 What do we know about the zoo specimens?
13:15 Can we clone a Thylacine?
17:34 SCANS OF THYLACINE JOEY
24:24 What happens after we clone a one?
30:31 Could there still be Tasmanian Tigers out there?
#tasmaniantiger #thylacine #extinct
Link to original video interview: https://youtu.be/m8VORE95D7s
LINKS FOR ANDREW PASK:

Websites:
http://pasklab.biosciences.uom.org.au/
https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/individuals/professor-andrew-pask

Twitter: @AJ_Pask
Email: [email protected]
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