Tasmanian tigers suffered from limited genetic diversity long before they were hunted to extinction, a study of DNA has found. It showed the species, alive until 1936, would have struggled to survive even without human contact.

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Tasmanian tigers suffered from limited genetic diversity long before they were hunted to extinction, a study of DNA has found. It showed the species, alive until 1936, would have struggled to survive even without human contact.