Thylacinus

It is in fact the skull of Thylacinus, the ‘Tasmanian wolf’.

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

It is in fact the skull of Thylacinus, the ‘Tasmanian wolf’.

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

The recently extinct marsupial thylacine Thylacinus cynocephalus, also known as the Tasmanian Tiger, was the largest living mammalian carnivore in Australia.

Australian Fossil Mammal Sites, Australia 2009

The Thylacinus cynocephalus, or the Tasmanian Tiger, was the largest living mammalian carnivore in Australia until it recently became extinct.

Australian Fossil Mammal Sites, Australia 2009

Thylacinus macknessi, a specialised thylacinid (Marsupialia: Thylacinidae) from Miocene deposits of Riversleigh, north-western Queensland.

Australian Fossil Mammal Sites, Australia 2009

Perhaps the most renowned of these is the largest marsupial carnivore, the Tasmanian thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus), which was hunted to extinction by European settlers.

Tasmanian temperate forests 2008

Another species, the thylacine Thylacinus cynocephalus (Ex), is thought to be extinct, having been last recorded in 1936, but there are unconfirmed reports of its continued survival.

Tasmanian Wilderness, Australia 2008

As a result this ecoregion is the most degraded in Tasmania, and endemic species such as the Tasmanian thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) and the King Island emu (Dromaius ater) are now extinct.

Tasmanian temperate forests 2008

The Tasmanian devil (Sacrophilus harrisii) is widespread throughout all of Tasmania, and the extinct Tasmanian thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) once ranged throughout Tasmania as well, in low densities.

Tasmanian Central Highland forests 2007

Just such a tragedy, by the standards of today's cultural climate, was the more recent extinction of Thylacinus, the Tasmanian wolf.

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