The tiger, also known as Thylacine, was a wolf-like carnivorous marsupial, about the size of a large dog, who once used to roam the forests of Australia, New Guinea and Tasmania. However, the last known Tasmanian tiger died in Hobart zoo in 1936, with the rest of the species hunted to extinction.

Breakthrough reconstruction of almost the complete genome of the Tasmanian tiger from a pickled fossil skull could help bring the extinct species back to life, scientists claim.