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For the Tasmanian tiger or thylacine, Lamm said the pace of progress has been quicker than expected.—Katie Hunt, CNN, 16 Jan. 2025 The genetic material will then be transferred to a dunnart embryo and the first thylacine can be brought back to life.—Scott Travers, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024 The resulting animal will be a close approximation of a thylacine—or, in the company’s other de-extinction projects, a modern woolly mammoth or dodo.—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Oct. 2024 This relentless persecution, coupled with habitat destruction and disease, rapidly drove thylacine numbers to dangerously low levels.—Scott Travers, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for thylacine
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Etymology
New Latin Thylacinus, genus of marsupials, from Greek thylakos sack, pouch
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