thylacine

• Benjamin, the last Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, died in Hobart Zoo in 1936. —  IrishExaminer.com
• Dog-like marsupial, also called the thylacine, went extinct in 1936 —  msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
• Researchers now believe the Tasmanian tiger, also called the thylacine, went extinct in —  msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
• "Apparently a disease epidemic swept through the thylacine population around 1900 to 1910, which didn't do them any good, but it is difficult to say how much, if any, that affected their extinction." —  msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
• Miller and his team used state-of-the-art DNA sequencing technology to analyze the hair of two preserved specimens: a female thylacine that died at the London Zoo in 1893, and a male brought to the National Zoo in 1902 that died three years later. —  msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines

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