AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM SECURITY GUARD WATCHES OVER TASMANIAN TIGER SPECIMEN IN SYDNEY, 2002-05-28 (photo)

A security guard from the Australian Museum watches over an 1866 Tasmanian Tiger embryo in Sydney May 28, 2002 that scientists have used to successfully replicate some of the animals genes using DNA extracted from the specimen. Scientists say they hope to clone a Tasmanian Tiger in 10 years if they are successful in constructing large quantities of all the genes of the extinct animal and sequencing sections of the genome to create a genetic library of Tasmanian Tiger DNA. The animal, also known as a thylacine, was a dog-like carnivirous marsupial with stripes on its back that lived on the Australian island state of Tasmania before it was hunted down by farmers who blamed it for killing sheep. The last known tiger died in 1936. REUTERS/David Gray DG/PB