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
Thylacinus
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.
Tasmanian devil
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The Tasmanian devil is a carnivorous marsupial of the family Dasyuridae. It was formerly present across mainland Australia, but became extinct there around 3,500 years ago; it is now confined to the i
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…and family Thylacinidae to have survived until modern times. Its closest living relatives are the other members of Dasyuromorphia, including the Tasmanian devil, from which it is estimated to have split 42–36 million years ago. Intensive hunting on Tasmania is generally blamed for its extinction, but other…
Sarcophilus harrisii taranna
A jawbone found in the mainland Jenolan Caves
Two devils, one without any white markings. Around 16% of wild devils have no markings.
Tasmanian devil skeleton on display at the Museum of Osteology, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma