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Old 23-May-2008, 06:24 AM
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[edit]I want a mini T-Rex.
Every T-Rex starts as a mini, but then we grow.
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2...20/2249778.htm

Japanese scientists are still trudging through Siberia in search of elusive frozen mammoths to clone but another group has apparently broken new ground by injecting DNA from Tasmanian Tiger embryo's into mice.

http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200805/r251797_1036038.jpg

I want a mini T-Rex.
That's interesting since the Thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) is a marsupial and mice are placental mammals.
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There was no indication the injection wasn't fatal
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It would be nice if they brought it back. When I saw this topic I thought they had discovered a new kind of mouse.
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