It's purely coincidence so soon after P-22's death, but I got the opportunity to be part of a science fiction exchange in Slate.com this week about a lion running loose on city streets. Margrét Helgadóttir's escaped lion is roaming the dark corners of Longyearbyen on Svalbard. The remote Arctic outpost is now a busy metropolis …
On De-extincting the Tasmanian Tiger
The Tasmanian tiger (or Thylacine) was a carnivorous marsupial located near the top of Australia's food chain. Halfway between a tiger and a coyote, its dog-like appearance is used as an example of convergent evolution. It looks similar to a dog, but its genetic lineage is completely different. The thylacine's story is not a happy …
Christopher J. Preston 