Plans to bring extinct tiger back to life

AUSTRALIAN researchers are reviving a project to bring an extinct animal known as the Tasmanian tiger back from the dead through cloning.

Three months after the Australian Museum shelved plans to clone the tiger - also known as a thylacine - a group of universities and research institutes are planning to revive the project.

Mike Archer, dean of science at the University of New South Wales, told the Herald-Sun newspaper that researchers from New South Wales and Victoria states were likely to join the programme, which involves recovering DNA from a pup preserved in ethanol in 1866 to breed a living specimen.