AUSTRALIA: SCINTISTS CELEBRATE BREAKTHROUGH BY SUCCESSFULLY EXTRACTING FOR THE FIRST TIME DNA FROM EXTINCT ANIMAL, THE TASMANIAN TIGER

Record ID: 981109

  • Title: AUSTRALIA: SCINTISTS CELEBRATE BREAKTHROUGH BY SUCCESSFULLY EXTRACTING FOR THE FIRST TIME DNA FROM EXTINCT ANIMAL, THE TASMANIAN TIGER
  • Date: 4th May 2000
  • Summary: SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA (MAY 4, 2000) (NINE NET - NO ACCESS AUSTRALIA/NBC/INTERNET) 1. SLV STUFFED TASMANIAN TIGER/PRESERVED TASMANIAN TIGER PUP 0.06 FILE (NINE NET - NO ACCESS AUSTRALIA/NBC/INTERNET) 2. SLV BLACK AND WHITE FOOTAGE OF TASMANIAN TIGER (2 SHOTS) 0.14 SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA (MAY 4, 2000) (NINE NET - NO ACCESS AUSTRALIA/INTERNET/NBC) 3. SV SOUNDBITE (English) PROFESSOR MICHAEL ARCHER, DIRECTOR OF AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM, SAYING: "We are here to announce what is probably the biological equivalent of human beings taking their first step on the moon." 0.18 FILE (TEN NET - NO ACCESS AUSTRALIA/INTERNET) 4. FILE OF PRESERVED TIGER PUP IN JAR/ARCHER LOOKING AT IT/PRESERVED TASMANIAN TIGERS (3 SHOTS) 0.35 5. VARIOUS BLACK AND WHITE FOOTAGE OF TASMANIAN TIGER (4 SHOTS) 0.43 SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA (MAY 4, 2000) (NINE NET - NO ACCESS AUSTRALIA/NBC/INTERNET) 6. SV SOUNDBITE (English) ARCHER SAYING: "It is the threshold of what will be a very exciting series of opportunities to maybe question whether extinction really is forever." 0.52 FILE (TEN NET - NO ACCESS AUSTRALIA/INTERNET) 7. MV ARCHER LOOKING AT PRESERVED TASMANIAN TIGER/TIGER IN JAR (3 SHOTS) 1.04 SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA (MAY 4, 2000) (NINE NET - NO ACCESS AUSTRALIA/NBC/INTERNET) 8. SV SOUNDBITE (English) ARCHER SAYING: "We would like to see Australia over-run with this wonderful animal again" 1.07 FILE (NINE NET - NO ACCESS AUSTRALIA/NBC/INTERNET) 9. SLV TASMANIAN TIGER 1.14 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
  • Country: Australia
  • Reuters ID: LVA3MHO6GT0UFDUTQ2I7W6SILZ8O
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