Austin company trying to bring back the extinct Tasmanian tiger

AUSTIN (KXAN) — An Austin-based genetic engineering company said Tuesday it's trying bring back an Australian animal that went extinct nearly 90 years ago.
Colossal Biosciences said it's working with the University of Melbourne in Australia to "de-extinct" the thylacine.The marsupial, commonly known as the Tasmanian tiger, was native to Australia.According to Colossal's page on the thylacine, the last wild Tasmanian tiger was killed between 1910 and 1920. It was heavily hunted, because it