Tazmanian Tiger

Thylacine cynocephalus named latin Tazmanian Tiger this is the greatest modern carnivorous marsupial animal ever known. Regarded as the tiger, because his back is generally patterned stripes like a tiger. But some are calling the wolf, because the shape of his head does look like wolves.

Animals that live in the continent of Australia and New Guinea was declared extinct in the 20th century. In Australia, these animals became extinct thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans to the continent of kangaroos, but had to survive on the island of Tasmania with a number of other endemic species, including the Tasmanian Devil. That's why behind the name there are additional words Tasmania. Fossil found of this animal species indicates that he lived around the Miocene.

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