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- The thylacine (/ ˈθaɪləsiːn /; binomial name Thylacinus cynocephalus), also commonly known as the Tasmanian tiger or Tasmanian wolf, is an extinct carnivorous marsupial that was native to the Australian mainland and the islands of Tasmania and New Guinea.
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Thylacinus cynocephalus. El tilacino ( Thylacinus cynocephalus ), también conocido como lobo de Tasmania, lobo marsupial, tigre de Tasmania o tilacín, fue un marsupial carnívoro originado en el Holoceno. Era nativo de Australia, Tasmania y Nueva Guinea y se cree que se extinguió en el siglo XX.
Thylacinus is a genus of extinct carnivorous marsupials in the family Thylacinidae. The only recent member was the thylacine ( Thylacinus cynocephalus ), commonly also known as the Tasmanian tiger or Tasmanian wolf. The last known Tasmanian tiger was in the Beaumaris Zoo in Tasmania, eventually dying in 1936.
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- It Wasn't Really a Tiger. The Tasmanian Tiger earned its name because of the distinctive tiger-like stripes along its lower back and tail, which were more reminiscent of a hyena than a big cat.
- It's Also Known as the Thylacine. If "Tasmanian Tiger" is a deceptive name, where does that leave us? Well, the genus and species name of this extinct predator is Thylacinus cynocephalus (literally, Greek for "dog-headed pouched mammal"), but naturalists and paleontologists more commonly refer to it as the Thylacine.
- It Went Extinct in the Mid-20th Century. About 2,000 years ago, yielding to pressure from indigenous human settlers, Australia's Thylacine population dwindled rapidly.
- Both Males and Females Had Pouches. In most marsupial species, only the females possess pouches, which they use to incubate and protect their prematurely born young (as opposed to placental mammals, which produce their fetuses in an internal womb).
The Tasmanian tiger, also called the thylacine, was a meat-eating marsupial that was driven extinct by European colonisers. It once lived across mainland Australia and New Guinea, but its range was limited to the island of Tasmania by the time of British occupation.
Scientific name: Thylacinus cynocephalus. The Tasmanian tiger or thylacine is one of the most fabled animals in the world. European settlers were puzzled by it, feared it and killed it when they could. After only a century of European settlement, the animal had been pushed to the brink of extinction.
The thylacine ( Thylacinus cynocephalus) is the only species of the marsupial family Thylacinidae to exist into modern times. It is commonly referred to as the Tasmanian tiger or Tasmanian wolf , but being a marsupial, it is neither a tiger or a wolf in any true sense.
