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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.
In video games, boomerang-wielding Ty the Tasmanian Tiger is the star of his own trilogy during the 2000s. [166] Tiny Tiger, a villain in the popular Crash Bandicoot video game series, is a mutated thylacine. [167] In Valorant, agent Skye has the ability to use a Tasmanian tiger to scout enemies and clear bomb-planting sites. [168]
The extinct Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, survives only in a few clips of grainy film. Now, the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia has released an addition to this archive, in the form ...
In October 2024, the company announced that it had rebuilt a 99.9% accurate genome of the thylacine, using a “pickled” 110-year-old fossilized Tasmanian tiger skull. This marks “the most complete ancient genome of any species known to date” and provides a full DNA blueprint to potentially bring back the Tasmanian tiger.
Last year, scientists recovered and sequenced RNA from a 130-year-old Tasmanian tiger specimen preserved at room temperature in Sweden's Museum of Natural History. How the Tasmanian tiger died off
Reviving the dog-sized marsupial sounds noble, but some scientists say “de-extinction is a fairytale science.”
The Tasmanian tiger, a dog-sized striped carnivorous marsupial also called the thylacine, once roamed the Australian continent and adjacent islands, an apex predator that hunted kangaroos and ...
The last known Tasmanian tiger was in the Beaumaris Zoo in Tasmania, eventually dying in 1936. The earliest known member of the genus, Thylacinus macknessi appeared during the Early Miocene, around 16 million years ago, and was smaller than the modern thylacine, with a body mass of about 6.7–9.0 kilograms (14.8–19.8 lb).