Researchers recently found a long-overlooked bucket in the back of a Melbourne Museum cabinet, containing a well-preserved thylacine head stored in ethanol for over 110 years. Andrew Pask, head of the Tigrr Lab at the University of Melbourne, described the sight as “gruesome” in an interview with The Guardian, noting
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Scientists have discovered a well-preserved thylacine head, including tissue, at a museum in Melbourne, Australia. This find could aid efforts to revive the extinct thylacine using genetic techniques. (© Westell, William Percival, 1874-1937, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)