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Pask, speaking with 60 Minutes earlier this year, said researchers were working with the closest living relative of the Tasmanian tiger — a small marsupial called the fat-tailed dunnart — as a ...
The thylacine resembled a large, short-haired dog with a stiff tail which smoothly extended from the body in a way similar to that of a kangaroo. [31] The mature thylacine measured about 60 cm (24 in) in shoulder height and 1–1.3 m (3.3–4.3 ft) in body length, excluding the tail which measured around 50 to 65 cm (20 to 26 in). [33]
This is the only specimen photographed alive. The quagga ( Equus quagga quagga ) became extinct in the wild in the late 1870s due to hunting for meat and skins, and the subspecies' endling died in captivity on 12 August 1883 at the Artis in Amsterdam .
†Thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) Family Myrmecobiidae. Genus Myrmecobius. Numbat (Myremecobius fasciatus) Family Dasyuridae. Subfamily Dasyurinae. Tribe Dasyurini. Genus Dasycercus Crest-tailed mulgara, (Dasycercus cristicauda) Genus Dasykaluta. Little red kaluta, (Dasykalua rosamondae) Genus Dasyuroides. Kowari, (Dasyuroides byrnei)
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Examples include the thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus), the last known example of which died in Hobart Zoo in Tasmania in 1936; the Japanese wolf (Canis lupus hodophilax), last sighted over 100 years ago; the American ivory-billed woodpecker (Campephilus principalis), with the last universally accepted sighting in 1944 ...
Thylacines in Washington D.C., c. 1906 The International Thylacine Specimen Database (ITSD) is the culmination of a four-year research project to catalogue and digitally photograph all known surviving specimen material of the thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) (or Tasmanian tiger) held within museum, university, and private collections.
High levels of lead were found in 12 brands of cinnamon powder and multi-spice powders, according to testing released Thursday by Consumer Reports, a nonprofit that helps consumers evaluate goods ...