Scientists made a breakthrough in de-extinction by recovering the nearly complete genome of the extinct Tasmanian tiger from a preserved head. This finding advances efforts to revive the species using cutting-edge genetic engineering and offers hope for the conservation of endangered marsupials.

Colossal Biosciences, which intends to create proxy species of the woolly mammoth, dodo, and Tasmanian tiger, claims it has made genome editing breakthroughs that bring it closer to the lost marsupial wolf.

However, the last known Tasmanian tiger died in Hobart zoo in 1936, with the rest of the species hunted to extinction. Now a US science company called Colossal, who are also trying to bring back the Woolly mammoth and Dodo from extinction,