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The '''thylacine''' (''Thylacinus cynocephalus'') is an extinct species of marsupial, and the largest known carnivorous mammal which lived in Australia.
The '''thylacine''' (''Thylacinus cynocephalus'') is an extinct species of marsupial, and the largest carnivorous mammal which lived in Australia into modern times. Once common on the Australian mainland, it disappeared there some 2,000 years ago, leaving the island of Tasmania as a last stand where severe persecution reduced its numbers to a last known survivor dying in a zoo in 1936. Since then the thylacine has become a subject of [[cryptozoology]] as well as scientific attempts to clone the animal with the possibility of bringing it back from extinction.
==Etymology==
European settlers arriving on Tasmania in the early 19th century gave the animal its two most familiar names: '''Tasmanian wolf''', in reference to its [[wolf]]-like appearance, and '''Tasmanian tiger''' for the [[tiger]]-like stripes on the body; it is still commonly referred to as the tiger on the island today. "Ka-nunnah", "laoonana", "langunta", "cab-berr-one-nen", and "corinna" were just several of many names given to the thylacine by Tasmanian aborigines<ref>http://tmag.tas.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/128568/KANUNNAH4.pdf</ref>. The binomial name comes from from the Greek ''θύλακος'' (thýlakos; "sack") and the Latin ''cynocephalus'' ("dog-head")<ref>http://www.australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/tasmanian-tiger</ref>.
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