
The Hunt for the Thylacine (Tasmanian Tigers, Tasmanian Wolves, Cryptids)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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The Economics of Bringing Thylacines Back
We had a role in thylacines going extinct, but their habitat still exists. If we did help them to go extinct, do we have a responsibility to bring them back? We shouldn't think of economic matters as a zero-sum game," he says. Bringing back woolly mammoths would teach us bunches of new things that will have practical applications next time.
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Transcript

The Thylacine or Tasmanian tiger lived in Australia for thousands of years, but went extinct in 1936. Or so they thought. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli explore the reports that there are still thylacines in the wild as well as efforts to bring them back through DNA technology.
