thylacine in English

noun
1
a doglike carnivorous marsupial with stripes across the rump, found only in Tasmania. There have been no confirmed sightings since one was captured in 1933, and it may now be extinct.
The ‘Queensland tiger’ sounds very similar to the thylacine (marsupial wolf) that went extinct in Australia.

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1. A thylacine was reportedly shot and photographed at Mawbanna in 1938.

2. Darby also appears to be the source for the claim that the last thylacine was a male.

3. Wild dogs did eat a few of the sheep, but the thylacine got a bad rap.

4. And the animals in those areas were the same that were there when the thylacine was around.

5. Dickson's thylacine (Nimbacinus dicksoni) is the oldest of the seven discovered fossil species, dating back to 23 million years ago.

6. Australia lost more than 90% of its larger terrestrial vertebrates by around 40 thousand years ago, with the notable exceptions of the kangaroo and the thylacine.

7. The Aborigines, who were in Tasmania long before the white man arrived only about 200 years ago, called the thylacine by the name corinna.

8. And that tells us if we can get that genome back together, get it into a live cell, it's going to produce thylacine stuff.