Tigers Could Roam Again in Central Asia, Scientists Say

Tuesday, January 17, 2017 - 07:21 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Caspian tigers, some of the largest cats that ever lived, roamed through much of Central Asia before they were designated as extinct in the middle of the 20th century. But there is a chance that tigers -- using a subspecies that is nearly identical, genetically, to the Caspian -- could be restored to Central Asia.

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