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 Tasmanian devils now endangered
Posted on Friday, 22 May, 2009| 4:36 | Comments: 1
Australia's Tasmanian devil could be going the way of the Thylacine as the status of the species has been changed from vulnerable to endangered following a facial tumour disease that has seriously reduced its population....
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 Thylacine's mysterious die-off explained
Posted on Friday, 16 January, 2009| 6:28 | Comments: 1
Until recently, little was known about the mysterious Tasmanian tiger, but new DNA sequences of the dog-like marsupial shed light on the striped creature's surprising family tree and its extinction 73 years ago.
Researchers now believe the Tasmanian tiger, also called the thylacine, went extinct in 1936 after the death of the last known surviving individual at a Tasmanian zoo, and four decades after genetic diversity within the species dropped to a critically dangerous low. ...
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Does the Thylacine still exist ?
Posted on Tuesday, 23 December, 2008| 4:16 | Comments: 11
Australian wildlife scientists have re-opened the cryptic case of the Tasmanian tiger, a marsupial carnivore that resembled a striped coyote and which was last seen alive more than 70 years ago.
Scientists think chances are slim that Thylacinus cynocephalus still roams remote areas of Tasmania, the large island just south of Australia, but they can't help but turn over every possible leaf for evidence.
The last wild Tasmanian tiger was killed by a farmer around 1930, a...
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 Dingo had measure of Tassie tiger
Posted on Sunday, 9 September, 2007| 4:53 | Comments: 0
Submitted by Waspie Dwarf: Scientists have digitally crash-tested the predator performance of two Australian icons - the feral dingo dog and the extinct Tasmanian "tiger". The team built sophisticated computer models of the animals' skulls to compare their feeding behaviour....
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 On the hunt for the elusive tiger
Posted on Sunday, 19 August, 2007| 5:28 | Comments: 0
The last documented thylacine - Tasmanian tiger - died at Hobart Zoo in September 1936, and the species was declared "presumed extinct" in 1986. But is it? Travel anywhere on Tasmania's west coast and you will meet locals who tell tales of some of the 4000 claimed sightings of the mystifying marsupials over the past 70 years....
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 Tasmanian Tiger may not be extinct
Posted on Wednesday, 4 July, 2007| 8:25 | Comments: 8
Australian wildlife scientists have re-opened the cryptic case of the Tasmanian tiger, a marsupial carnivore that resembled a striped coyote and which was last seen alive more than 70 years ago. Scientists think chances are slim that Thylacinus still roams remote areas of Tasmania, the large island just south of Australia, but they can't help but turn over every possible leaf for evidence....
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Tourist vows to film an Tasmanian tiger
Posted on Tuesday, 6 March, 2007| 4:30 | Comments: 5
A German tourist who claims to have photographed a Tasmanian tiger, solving one of Australia's enduring wildlife myths, said on Friday he had returned to the country to video the animal and end doubts over his find....
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70 years since last Tasmanian Tiger
Posted on Wednesday, 6 September, 2006| 8:08 | Comments: 7
Thylacine researcher Col Bailey was not even born when the last captive Tasmanian tiger died in 1936. But that hasn't stopped him devoting his life to proving their continued existence.The 69-year-old has spent 40 years investigating thylacine sightings and has no plans to retire until he has conclusive proof that the elusive Tasmanian tiger has survived....
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Is the Thylacine lost forever ?
Posted on Wednesday, 21 June, 2006| 9:01 | Comments: 20
The Earth has lost many creatures as a result of human activity: The dodo and the passenger pigeon are among the best known. But in more recent years, one of the most spectacularly tragic losses in nature was Thylacinus cynocephalus, commonly called the thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger....
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New Thylacine sighting on North Coast
Posted on Saturday, 18 February, 2006| 4:39 | Comments: 14
It was 3.30am on a mild January morning when North Coast resident Mick Stubbs watched a cat-like creature walk along a roadway near Mullumbimby and then duck under a fence before disappearing into the long grass....
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