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The thylacine is widespread in popular culture and is a cultural icon in Australia. The thylacine was known as the Tasmanian tiger because of the dark transverse stripes that radiated from the top of its back, and it was called the Tasmanian wolf because it resembled a medium- to large-sized canid.
Thylacines in Washington D.C., c. 1906. The International Thylacine Specimen Database ( ITSD) is the culmination of a four-year research project to catalogue and digitally photograph all known surviving specimen material of the thylacine ( Thylacinus cynocephalus) (or Tasmanian tiger) held within museum, university, and private collections.
Thylacinus potens ("powerful pouched dog") was the largest species of the family Thylacinidae, originally known from a single poorly preserved fossil discovered by Michael O. Woodburne in 1967 in a Late Miocene locality near Alice Springs, Northern Territory. It preceded the most recent species of thylacine by 4–6 million years, [2] and was 5 ...
As far as we know, the thylacine—also known as the Tasmanian tiger—went extinct on September 7, 1936, (though locals still report sightings) when Benjamin, the last known thylacine in ...
Thylacinus. Thylacinus macknessi [1] Thylacinus is a genus of extinct carnivorous marsupials in the family Thylacinidae. The only recent member was the thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus), commonly also known as the Tasmanian tiger or Tasmanian wolf. The last known Tasmanian tiger was in the Beaumaris Zoo in Tasmania, eventually dying in 1936.
Thylacinidae is an extinct family of carnivorous marsupials from the order Dasyuromorphia. The only species to survive into modern times was the thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus), which became extinct in 1936. The consensus of authors prior to 1982 was that the thylacinid family were related to the Borhyaenidae, a group of South American ...
Acanthaeschna victoria, the thylacine darner, [4] is a species of Australian dragonfly in the family Aeshnidae. [5] It is the only member of the genus Acanthaeschna . [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Acanthaeschna victoria is rare and endemic to coastal areas of both southern and northern New South Wales as well as southern Queensland.
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