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Similar efforts to bring back the woolly mammoth, the dodo and the thylacine, better known as the Tasmanian tiger, are also underway.—Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 9 July 2025 Colossal also wants to bring back the dodo, the woolly mammoth, the Tasmanian tiger—or thylacine—and more.—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 8 July 2025 Research on the Australian thylacine (Tasmanian tiger), driven to extinction less than a century ago, is ahead of schedule.—Mike Snider, USA Today, 16 Apr. 2025 In addition to bringing back the dire wolf, other Colossal projects focus on bringing back the woolly mammoth, thylacine and dodo, all of which have been extinct for hundreds to thousands of years.—Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for thylacine
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New Latin Thylacinus, genus of marsupials, from Greek thylakos sack, pouch
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