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Australian Researchers Launch Search for Tasmanian Tigers (Thylacines) in North Queensland

Australian researchers have launched a search for Tasmanian tiger—a species that is believed to have gone extinct about 80 years ago—after “plausible” possible sightings of the animal in north Queensland. Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine as it is scientifically known, was the largest known carnivorous marsupial of modern times and was native to continental Australia, New […]