Epi 62: Science – How an extinct Tasmanian tiger is being brought back to life

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Jurassic Park is a movie (and book) filled with an equal measure of wonders and horrors. It's a story of a park filled with a group of extinct species – dinosaurs – brought to life. This episode contains a story quite similar – an extinct species of the Tasmanian tiger being brought back to life. The only difference is that this is real. It is not a piece of fiction – it is happening here and now. Ninth-grader Umang from DAV school, Durgapur speaks about the science behind this, and about how he feels about the very idea of an extinct species being brought back.

Tasmania is an island state of Australia. It is 7 times the size of the Yellowstone National Park and has a rich and diverse ecosystem of animals, birds and marine creatures. Bringing back the tiger (after nearly 100 years of extinction) carries some risks.
'Do we know if the animal can live in the jungles of Tasmania, where the climate is different from what it used to be about in the 1920s ?'
You can find answers to this question and more in this episode.

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