National Geographic | Abril 2013 | En Inglés

National Geographic | Abril 2013 | En Inglés | Reviving Extinct Species

Species Revival: Should We Bring Back Extinct Animals?
Scientists are debating whether to bring back vanished species.

The Tasmanian tiger—known as a thylacine—is one of many extinct species at the center of the de-extinction debate.

On May 6, 1930, a Tasmanian farmer named Wilfred Batty grabbed a rifle and shot a thylacine—commonly known as a Tasmanian tiger—that was causing a commotion in his henhouse. The bullet hit the animal in the shoulder. Twenty minutes later, it was dead. A photograph taken soon afterward shows Batty kneeling beside the stiffened carcass, wearing a big floppy hat and a young man’s proud grin.