The Tasmanian tiger or thylacine is native to the Australian mainland and the islands of Tasmania and New Guinea. This species was last seen in the year 1930 in Tasmania.
Its scientific name is Thylacinus cynocephalus, the only animal in the Thylacinidae family to survive in modern times, was a marsupial mammal that raises young ones in a pouch.
Even though the species earned its nickname Tasmanian Tiger because of the stripes along its back, it was a slow-paced carnivorous that usually hunted alone or in pairs at night.
The sharply clawed animal had a dog-like head and ate kangaroos, other marsupials, small rodents, and birds. The European colonization of Australia saw a sharp decline in its numbers. The official declaration of the animal’s extinction was in the 1980s.