RE: CNN: Cloning of extinct Huia bird approved

[Valla Bernhardt <vbernhardt@dallas.clarkbardes.com>]

TWILLIAMS@canr1.cag.uconn.edu 
wrote:
        >Face it, the thylacine is gone.

that sounds like a falsifiable hypothesis.  :-)

-val


> -----Original Message-----
> From: TWILLIAMS@canr1.cag.uconn.edu [SMTP:TWILLIAMS@canr1.cag.uconn.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, July 22, 1999 9:48 AM
> To:   aj.gray@mail.com; dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject:      Re: CNN: Cloning of extinct Huia bird approved
> 
> 
> >Although officially the last thylacine died in Hobart Zoo in 1936, there
> is
> >an increasing amount of evidence to suggest that the animal is not
> actually
> >extinct (or at least that it was still alive long after the 1930s). 
> >Hundreds
> >of people every year report seeing the thylacine in the Tasmanian outback
> >(and also in mainland Australia, where the animal also lived before the
> >arrival of dingoes), and sheep have been found with injuries attributable
> >only to a thylacine attack.
> 
> 
> Cryptozoology again.  Face it, the thylacine is gone.