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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.

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<ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4424142,00.html "Back from the Dead"], Thursday May 30, 2002, ''Guardian''</ref>.  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.

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[[Category:Mammals]][[Category:Marsupials]][[Category:Extinct Animals]]

[[Category:Mammals]][[Category:Marsupials]][[Category:Extinct Animals]]