In 1936, the last known Tasmanian Tiger (Thylacine) died at the Hobart Zoo. This dog-like marsupial, named from the striping of its hindquarters, was the first known mammal species to become extinct in Tasmania. The animal had been systematically exterminated by European settlers as an undesirable predator of farm animals. After it was eliminated in the wild, a few remained alive in zoos, but no effort was made to breed the species. In 2022, Australia’s ABC television reported, “A University of Melbourne research lab that has been working on the de-extinction of the Tasmanian tiger for the past 15 years has announced it has partnered with a US-based genetic engineering company to…bring the marsupial back.”