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How we'll resurrect the gastric brooding frog, the Tasmanian tiger

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Michael Archer |

TEDxDeExtinction

• March 2013

The gastric brooding frog lays its eggs just like any other frog -- then swallows them whole to incubate. That is, it did until it went extinct 30 years ago. Paleontologist Michael Archer makes a case to bring back the gastric brooding frog and the thylacine, commonly known as the Tasmanian tiger.

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The gastric brooding frog lays its eggs just like any other frog -- then swallows them whole to incubate. That is, it did until it went extinct 30 years ago. Paleontologist Michael Archer makes a case to bring back the gastric brooding frog and the thylacine, commonly known as the Tasmanian tiger.

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Paleontologist Michael Archer is working to bring back his favorite extinct animal: the Tasmanian tiger.

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