Fauna of Australia
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The fauna of Australia consists of a large variety of animals; some 46% of birds, 69% of mammals, 94% of amphibians, and 93% of reptiles that inhabit the continent are endemic to it. This high level o
The red kangaroo is the largest extant macropod and is one of Australia's heraldic animals, appearing with the emu on the coat of arms of Australia.
Becoming extinct in 1936, the Tasmanian tiger was the largest carnivorous marsupial to have survived into modern times.
Short-beaked echidna
Platypus
Thylacine
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The thylacine, also commonly known as the Tasmanian tiger, Tasmanian wolf or marsupial wolf is an extinct species of carnivorous marsupial which was native to the Australian mainland and the islands o
Fauna of Australia
…led to numerous extinctions. Based on the list of Australian animals extinct in the Holocene, about 33 mammals (27 from the mainland, including the thylacine), 24 birds (three from the mainland), one reptile, and three frog species or subspecies are strongly believed to have become extinct in Australia during…
The earliest known non-indigenous illustration of a thylacine; from Harris's 1808 description
The thylacine was a basal member of Dasyuromorphia, an order comprising most of the Australian carnivorous marsupials
Thylacine skull cast (bottom) and coyote skull (top), at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology.