Hello everyone, welcome to the Extinct Animal mini-series on Patreon.

We are going to be covering a bunch of different animals depending on your suggestions through

Patreon.

Make sure to suggest which extinct animals you think would be the coolest.

And extinct animals normally do not have too too much information on them,

and so the episode length will, of course, depend on how much information we have,

but they will generally stay within the realm of about 10 minutes.

Today's episode is on the Tasmanian Tiger,

and all of these facts are coming from one-kind planet.org.

So let us go into the Australian bush where the Tasmanian tiger resided.

So the Tasmanian tiger is an animal that has been very culturally relevant

and has even been found on engravings and rock art dating all the way back to 1,000 BC. They had gone

extinct on the Australian mainland in which they were native,

and they went extinct before the first European settlers even got there.

It was officially declared extinct in 1986, because the last one that had been seen was in 1936 in which the last known individual Tasmanian tiger had died in Tasmania in Hobart Zoo.

The reason they had waited so long in this case about 50 years before declaring this animal extinct is of course because they

do not know entirely if there might be some family of Tasmanian tigers where they just simply

haven't seen them but after about 50 years of no more Tasmanian tigers, they made the declaration

in 1986, which is why we are talking about them today. Its scientific name is Thelassinus

synocephalus, which comes from the Greek, which means dog-headed, pouched one. And that distinction of being

a pouched one, you might be surprised that the Tasmanian tiger was a marsupial, but also the largest

carnivorous marsupial in modern times.

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