Captain Bubba, I think I love you.
As for cloning the thylacine, they do have some snippets of DNA from a preserved pup in jar, but there are some reasons against cloning:
1. The DNA is only partial.
2. Since there are no thylacines around to implant the clone into, they would have to use its closest living relative, the Tasmanian devil, and nobody is sure that would even work.
3. It would cost an enourmous amount of money, money that might be better spent saving living species that still have a fighting chance.
4. Even if you do clone it successfully, it won't have any other thylacines to mate with, thus no offspring, and so it would be impossible to reintroduce the thylacine anyway.
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Originally Posted by KevinTheHerbivore
This is a scary looking son of a bitch. Should we want this guy around....?
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That's just a still from an old film. Its only yawning. The reason the jaws are so large is because the thylacine used to use them to crush the skulls of prey.
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