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Dickson's Thylacine (Nimbacinus dicksoni)
Dickson's Thylacine. Illustration: © A Musser.
Lived: 23-16 million years ago (early Miocene)
Size: Length (head and body): 50cm
Description: Dickon's Thy ...
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Powerful Thylacine (Thylacinus potens)
Powerful Thylacine.
Illustration: Copyright © A Musser.
Lived: 8 million years ago (late Miocene)
Size: Length (head and body): 1.5m
Description: Several ki ...
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Tasmanian Thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus )
Lived: 4 million years ago (early Pliocene) to 1936
Size: Length (head to body): 1m
Description: The Tasmanian Thylacine is often called the Tasmanian ...
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Tasmanian Wolf
Common Name: Tasmanian Wolf
Scientific Name: Thylacinus cynocephalus
Animal's Status:
Scientists believe it to be extinct but yearly dozen unconfirmed sightings in remote areas of the state.
Family: Marsupial
What is the animal's habitat?
open forests and coastal scrub habitats
Where is the animal's habitat?
Formally ranged over all of mainland Australia and Tasmania.
Animal's description:
The Tiger was about five feet long, an ...
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The last one
The last Thylacine in captivity died on 7 September 1936. This year marks the sixtieth anniversary of that occasion. During the last 20 000 years, the Thylacine was the largest carnivorous marsupial, so it played an important role as the top predator in its food web.
Fossils of Thylacines in Western Australia
Thylacines once roamed widely within Western Australia. Bones have been found at two sites in the north Kimberley and Exmouth. Other evidence of Thylacines is in the rock ...
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Thylacine -- a real, live cryptocritter.
Imagine a bizarre animal that appears to be half wolf and half tiger, with a head like a large dog's, hindquarters like a hyena's, and tiger stripes covering only the rear half of its body. Let's say this beast also has a long, rigid tail and a pouch like a kangaroo's, except that the pouch opens backwards. It sure sounds like a mythical mishmash of different species, similar to a jackalope or minotaur, but gue ...
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The Tale of the Tasmanian Tiger
More than 60 years ago, in a chain-link cage at the Hobart Zoo, in Australia, a creature with a five foot long, low dog-like body died. Its death marked the extinction of the Tasmanian Tiger.
Maybe.
Ever since that specimen died in captivity, there have been sporadic but unconfirmed reports of tigers being sighted in the wilds near their old habitats. In 1995, a park ranger spotted what looked like a Tasmanian Tiger in the Pyengana region of Tasmania. ...
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