CNN.com - Cloning to revive extinct species - May 28, 2002

The Tasmanian Tiger, in this case. It wasn't really a tiger, of course: it was a marsupial, and looked more doglike than catlike, but it had stripes. I know some people will think we're playing God, but we're not. Scientists are trying to fix our own mistakes. The animal was hunted to extinction by humans, and maybe it will be humans who will bring it back. It was hardly the only one, of course. I'd love to see a woolly mammoth, but I doubt that's do-able. Similarly, the preservation wasn't there for pre-20th century extinctions like the dodo or moa. But one can hope.