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a loyal listener, welcome back. Today you'll learn about the possible return of

the Tasmanian Tiger, the future of hurricanes,

and how one animal shelter made a stunning discovery.

Without further ado, let's satisfy some curiosity.

Researchers digging through the archives of a natural history museum in Stockholm, Sweden came across the dried-up remains of a 130-year-old thylacine

and decided to do a little testing.

Thylacine, I know that word. Haven't we, haven't we talked about them before?

We have. The Thylacine is another word for the Tasmanian tiger.

Oh, yeah, marsupials that went extinct kind of a while, not that long ago, right?

Yeah, exactly.

So these creatures were pretty amazing.

They looked kind of like a dog or a wolf with

tiger stripes and their mouths could open almost 90 degrees which made them really striking to see.

And like you said, even though they looked like a dog and they were

named after a large cat, they were actually marsupials. Okay, so remind me, how and

when did they go extinct? Okay, so well, the last remaining population of these guys roamed the

Tasmanian countryside. As sheep farming began to take hold in that area in the

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