Tasmanian tiger likely doomed by genetics

Wednesday, April 18, 2012 - 17:12 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Even if humans hadn't hunted the Tasmanian tiger to extinction, its low genetic diversity  may have naturally doomed the curious marsupial, researchers have found.

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