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Original Message AUSTRALIAN scientists say it may eventually be possible to bring a dinosaur back to life, after a world-first experiment with DNA from the extinct Tasmanian tiger.

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DNA from preserved Tasmanian tiger specimens was injected and brought back to life in a mouse embryo in the nine-year experiment conducted by Melbourne University zoologists Andrew Pask and Marilyn Renfree.

The experiment proved the tiger DNA was able to grow cartilage and bone in the mouse, showing the extinct gene could be brought back to life, results published in the international scientific journal PLoS One show today.

Dr Pask said the same technique could now be used with other extinct species such as the dinosaur, mammoth and neanderthal, all of which scientists had large amounts of DNA available.

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