Contact: Peggy Calicchia
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Caption: The two surviving thylacine cubs brought to the National Zoo in 1902, photographed two to three years after their arrival. One of these animals, most likely the thylacine in front, is a specimen sequenced for this study.
Credit: Photo courtesy of the Smithsonian Archives.
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