By Ashley Strickland, CNN
Updated 11:19 AM ET, Sat August 20, 2022
VIDEO: Newly released footage from 1935 captures last known thylacine 00:49
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(CNN)Where would we be without dreams?
It’s a question raised in the new Netflix fantasy drama “The Sandman,” based on a thought-provoking comic book series by Neil Gaiman that envisions human traits and experiences as anthropomorphic forms who exist within an unconventional family.
But the discussion of dreams is also something the CNN team encounters each week as we interview scientists and uncover the latest findings.
Dreams, so often, are at the root of what can make such scientific discoveries and advances possible.
These visionary thoughts pave the way for passion projects to become fact-finding explorations that create new knowledge. Dreams inspire us to ask questions and push the boundaries of possibility.
After all, as Gaiman wrote, “Dreams shape the world.”
Back to the future
A Tasmanian tiger exhibit is displayed at the Australian Museum in Sydney in 2002.
It may be time for the Tasmanian tiger to walk the Earth once again.
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A new complex project will combine gene editing, ancient DNA retrieval, artificial wombs and other technological advances to bring the striped carnivorous marsupial, which has been extinct for nearly 100 years, back to life.
Thylacines, as the creatures are officially known, disappeared from virtually everywhere except the Australian island of Tasmania about 2,000 years ago. There, humans who saw these coyote-size animals as livestock predators drove the species to extinction.
But the path to resurrecting an extinct animal like the Tasmanian tiger is not cut-and-dried.
Scientists want to resurrect the extinct Tasmanian tiger
By Ashley Strickland, CNN
Updated 11:19 AM ET, Sat August 20, 2022
VIDEO: Newly released footage from 1935 captures last known thylacine 00:49
A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here.
(CNN)Where would we be without dreams?
It’s a question raised in the new Netflix fantasy drama “The Sandman,” based on a thought-provoking comic book series by Neil Gaiman that envisions human traits and experiences as anthropomorphic forms who exist within an unconventional family.
But the discussion of dreams is also something the CNN team encounters each week as we interview scientists and uncover the latest findings.
Dreams, so often, are at the root of what can make such scientific discoveries and advances possible.
These visionary thoughts pave the way for passion projects to become fact-finding explorations that create new knowledge. Dreams inspire us to ask questions and push the boundaries of possibility.
After all, as Gaiman wrote, “Dreams shape the world.”
Back to the future
A Tasmanian tiger exhibit is displayed at the Australian Museum in Sydney in 2002.
It may be time for the Tasmanian tiger to walk the Earth once again.
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A new complex project will combine gene editing, ancient DNA retrieval, artificial wombs and other technological advances to bring the striped carnivorous marsupial, which has been extinct for nearly 100 years, back to life.
Thylacines, as the creatures are officially known, disappeared from virtually everywhere except the Australian island of Tasmania about 2,000 years ago. There, humans who saw these coyote-size animals as livestock predators drove the species to extinction.
But the path to resurrecting an extinct animal like the Tasmanian tiger is not cut-and-dried.
Exposing the Big Game 
Reblogged this on The Extinction Chronicles.
Why? So it can be slaughtered again?
The people who dream these things up are completely out of touch with reality as to the overcrowded, out of balance world we are living in…
If it is due to arrogance, overhunting and habitat loss and fairly recent in history, then I am all for us correcting our mistakes with science. To put an animal back into its rightful place. But not to capitalize on, or horror of horrors, to eat, as was said in one article I read!
If it is our fault the animal went extinct.
Who else’s?
The Tasmanian tiger went extinct in the 1930s, I read. When we should have known better. The passenger pigeon in 1914. The Dusky Seaside Sparrow in 1990.
The extinction rate is climbing every day…
It’s terrible.