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Thylacines may have survived in remote areas until the late 1980s or 1990s, with the earliest date for extinction in the mid-1950s, the researchers suggest. The scientists posit that a few...
Thylacines — marsupials known as Tasmanian tigers — were declared extinct decades ago, but efforts to find one in the wild are thriving. Scientists are also working to bring back the species.
But a new, incredibly thorough, statistical analysis of more than 1200 reported sightings and other data has, for the first time, mapped the decline and extinction of the species, concluding that the thylacine likely did survive in tiny numbers in wilderness areas until the 1980s.
The thylacine was a slender fox-faced animal that originally inhabited the Australian mainland, New Guinea, and Tasmania. It is now extinct. It was the largest carnivorous of recent times. Having been widely hunted by European settlers, the thylacine had become rare by 1914, and the last known living specimen died in a private zoo in 1936.
The Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, most likely went extinct in the late 1990s or early 2000s, and could still persist in the most remote parts of the island, according to new research that is still undergoing peer review.
For decades, biologists have believed that the last surviving Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, died in captivity in a Tasmania zoo in 1936. But the striped, dog-like marsupials may have persisted...
About the size of a coyote, the thylacine disappeared about 2,000 years ago virtually everywhere except the Australian island of Tasmania. As the only marsupial apex predator that lived in...
Researchers in Australia and the US are embarking on a multi-million dollar project to bring the Tasmanian tiger back from extinction. The last known one, officially called a thylacine, died...
The team behind an attempt to 'de-extinct' the Tasmanian tiger says it has made a series of significant advancements, including producing a reconstructed thylacine genome that is 99.9 per cent accurate.
Nearly a century after it was wiped out, this unique animal has become a prized symbol of Australia—and a target for de-extinction. The Tasmanian tiger is alive.