Should we clone the Thylacine? Is such a thing even possible?

The DNA is degrated but maybe we can find some better
But yeah I think we should do it because the thylacine is sexy as hell

>>2371401
I think that if we find DNA we must preserve it until we can reliably clone other animals so we don't fuck up this one

>>2371401
>Implying its extinct

I had never heard of a thylacine before, very interesting. Huh.

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>>2371401
>cloning
No.

Even if you clone it, you need a surrogate mother to gestate it. I don't believe there is a suitable host for that.

>>2371401
no, thylacines are memes

>>2371615
>this is a meme
>that's a meme
>you're a meme
>meme, meme, meme
Oh fuck off. Just because something gets mentioned on a Cantonese finger painting forum doesn't automatically make it a fucking meme.

>>2371609
Artificial wombs do exist, but in any case they're far from viable or ethical even for the one species they've been catered towards (us).

>>2371609
In the case of marsupials, it might not be as difficult. Not much development occurs in the actual womb.

>>2371401
Even if we did clone it successfully, the offspring would have such a limited gene pool they would probably go extinct again in a few generations due to being prone to illnesses and genetic disorders.

>>2371609
>>2371639
Haven't they had some success with panda fetuses in cats? They didn't go full term or anything since I'm pretty sure they were just fucking around but they got something out of it.

As for cloning, how much/what kind of DNA do they need to clone something? We have cloned before but I know it's not as easy as taking a hair or some spit. Otherwise we would had mammoths for a few years now if our specimens weren't so old and degraded.

>>2371681
Because I'm imagining a scenario where we do have some stuff but its like
>We only had enough to clone the head and tail so we just attached them to a dog

May very well be possible to clone one/ a few individuals. A sustainable population though, most likely no. They'd just die out again.

>>2371657
You still need a nipple to attach the half developed babby.

>>2371609
Would a different, similarly sized marsupial (eg a kangaroo) work?
How closely related do the two species have to be for it to work as a surrogate mother?