The last Tasmanian tiger didn’t vanish quietly… it paced.

In 1936, Benjamin - the last known thylacine - paced endlessly inside a zoo enclosure. A haunting image that still defines extinction. Once Australia’s largest carnivorous marsupial, the Tasmanian tiger was unlike anything else on Earth. And yet, it was driven to extinction by human hands—through relentless hunting and habitat loss. Now, nearly a century later, science is asking a wild question: What if extinction isn’t forever? From the woolly mammoth to the dire wolf, companies like Colossal Biosciences are working to bring lost species back. But should we? Stream De-Extinction on Curiosity Stream 📺 (link in bio) 🎙️Narrated by Matt K. Baker . . . #watchandwonder #deextinction #tasmaniantiger #direwolf #woollymammoth