This area of
the museum discusses several major ongoing thylacine research projects.
"The International Thylacine Specimen
Database" is a presentation detailing the major cooperative effort
between museums and universities worldwide to produce the first comprehensive
database of all known thylacine specimen material.
"The Thylacine Genome Project" examines
the effort to recover the complete genome of the thylacine from preserved
museum specimens.
"The Thylacine Cloning Project"
explores the possibility of cloning the thylacine using genetic material
obtained from preserved tissues. |