Image courtesy of Baker; E. J. Keller, public domain.
Joel Kontinen
The last known Tasmanian tiger or thylacine (Thylacinus
cynocephalu) died in captivity at Hobart Zoo, in Tasmania. They were
carnivorous
marsupials. They disappeared from Australia
probably in the 1980s.
However, since then sightings of them have sown that maybe the tiger is still hiding. "There is no evidence to confirm any of the sightings," Andrew Pask), a professor of epigenetics at the University of Melbourne.
Source:
Pare, Sascha,
2923, Long extinct Tasmanian
tiger may still be alive and prowling the wilderness, scientists claim Live Science, 12 May.
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