When you say are they really doing this, you mean cloning the tassie Tiger (Thylacine)?
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The below is part of a cryptozoology site im making for Rex.
The Pup does have some tissue and they have extracted small amounts of DNA, I think though some of it is all over the place and they will have to try to figure out the missing parts which could take longer than they previously expected.
http://www.cryptozoology-zone.com/thylacine_dna_breakthrough.html