fat-tailed dunnart

English

fat-tailed dunnart

Noun

fat-tailed dunnart (plural fat-tailed dunnarts)

1. A small carnivorous marsupial, Sminthopsis crassicaudata, native to Australia.
   • 2022 August 16, Adam Morton, “De-extinction: scientists are planning the multimillion-dollar resurrection of the Tasmanian tiger”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     The scientists aim to reverse this by taking stem cells from a living species with similar DNA, the fat-tailed dunnart, and turning them into “thylacine” cells – or the closest approximation possible – using gene editing expertise developed by George Church, a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and Colossal’s co-founder.