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For other uses, see Thylacine (disambiguation). The thylacine (/ ˈθaɪləsiːn /; binomial name Thylacinus cynocephalus), also commonly known as the Tasmanian tiger or Tasmanian wolf, is an extinct carnivorous marsupial that was native to the Australian mainland and the islands of Tasmania and New Guinea. The thylacine died out in New Guinea ...
The Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) (palawa kani: purinina) [ 3 ] is a carnivorous marsupial of the family Dasyuridae. It was formerly present across mainland Australia, but became extinct there around 3,500 years ago; it is now confined to the island of Tasmania. The size of a small dog, the Tasmanian devil became the largest ...
The last known thylacine (Tasmanian tiger), photographed at Hobart Zoo in 1933. An endling is the last known individual of a species or subspecies. Once the endling dies, the species becomes extinct. The word was coined in correspondence in the scientific journal Nature.
Scientists are making the animal from scratch using RNA sequenced from a 132-year-old specimen. The Tasmanian Tiger Has Been Extinct for 87 Years. It's About to Return From the Dead.
The Tasmanian devil, an iconic Tasmanian mammal. Tasmanian mammals are divided into three major groups based on reproductive techniques: egg laying mammals (the monotremes), pouched mammals (the marsupials), and placental mammals. This is a list of mammals of Tasmania:
Thylacoleo ("pouch lion") is an extinct genus of carnivorous marsupials that lived in Australia from the late Pliocene to the Late Pleistocene (until around 40,000 years ago), often known as marsupial lions. They were the largest and last members of the family Thylacoleonidae, occupying the position of apex predator within Australian ecosystems ...
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. 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.