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==Extinction==
==Extinction==
[[File:Bagged Thylacine 1869.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Thylacine killed in 1869. A strong, yet mistaken, belief that it preyed on domestic sheep led to heavy persecution which ultimately caused the animal's extinction in 1936.]]
For reasons not fully known thylacines died out New Guinea and the Australian mainland, with the latest fossil finds from the Northern Territory date to 3000 BC. At about 4,000 BC Sulawesi hunters arrived, and with them they brought the [[dingo]]<ref>http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/how-did-dingo-get-australia</ref><ref>http://www.livescience.com/26246-dingoes-indian-migrants-australia.html</ref>, a canine subspecies of [[wolf]]. The theory states that in addition to human hunting, the dingo displaced the thylacine as the top predator through competitive pressure. This thesis is supported by the fact that the thylacine survived on Tasmania into the 20th century, where dingos never appeared<ref>https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/09/070905095352.htm</ref>.
For reasons not fully known thylacines died out New Guinea and the Australian mainland, with the latest fossil finds from the Northern Territory date to 3000 BC. At about 4,000 BC Sulawesi hunters arrived, and with them they brought the [[dingo]]<ref>http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/how-did-dingo-get-australia</ref><ref>http://www.livescience.com/26246-dingoes-indian-migrants-australia.html</ref>, a canine subspecies of [[wolf]]. The theory states that in addition to human hunting, the dingo displaced the thylacine as the top predator through competitive pressure. This thesis is supported by the fact that the thylacine survived on Tasmania into the 20th century, where dingos never appeared<ref>https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/09/070905095352.htm</ref>.