This incredibly rare thylacine specimen is an eviscerated adult female that lived at the London Zoo from 1884-1893. She is preserved in ethanol at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm, and is considered to be the best preserved thylacine specimen in existence.
In 2009, DNA was extracted from the hair of this specimen in order to sequence the mitrochondrial genome of the species, with hopes of sequencing the complete nuclear genome in the future. [x]
“The father of every good work is discontent, and its mother is diligence.”
Happy birthday Lajos Kassák, working class revolutionary, participant in the 1919 Hungarian Soviet Republic, groundbreaking avant garde poet, artist and theorist, born March 21st 1887
