The scientists sequenced a strand of RNA from a 130-year-old thylacine specimen preserved at the Beaumaris Zoo in Hobart, Tasmania.
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00:30 - People didn't think it could really be done.
00:33 RNA is very, very transient.
00:34 So, you know, if I would take some RNA
00:36 and smear it here on the table,
00:38 it would be destroyed in a matter of minutes.
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