What is Thylacine?
{{speciesbox | name = Thylacine<ref name=MSW3>{{MSW3 Groves|pages=23|id=10800004}}</ref> | fossil_range = [[Pliocene]] - [[Holocene]], {{fossil range|4|0.0001}} | image = Colored-Crop-Tasmanian tiger.jpg | image_upright = 1.2 | image_caption = | status = EX | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = | extinct = 1936 | genus = Thylacinus | species = cynocephalus | authority = ([[George Prideaux Robert Harris|Harris]], 1808) | range_map = ThylacineRangeMap.png | range_map_caption = Historic Thylacine range in Tasmania | synonyms = {{collapsible list|bullets = true|title=<small>List</small> | ''Didelphis cynocephala'' <small>Harris, 1808</small> | ''Dasyurus cynocephalus'' <small>Geoffroy, 1810</small> | ''Thylacinus harrisii'' <small>Temminck, 1824</small> | ''Dasyurus lucocephalus'' <small>Grant, 1831</small> | ''Thylacinus striatus'' <small>Warlow, 1833</small> | ''Thylacinus communis'' <small>Anon., 1859</small> | ''Thylacinus breviceps'' <small>Krefft, 1868</small>}} }} The '''thylacine''' ('''''Thylacinus cynocephalus''''') is an extinct species of [[mammal]]. It was a [[carnivore|carnivorous]] [[marsupial]] [[animal]]. The Thylacine was also known as '''[[Tasmania]]n tiger''', '''Tasmanian wolf''' and '''Tasmanian hyena'''. The last known Thylacine died in a [[Hobart]] [[zoo]] on 7 September 1936.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/wildlife/mammals/thylacin.html |title=Tasmanian Wildlife - Thylacine, or Tasmanian Tiger |access-date=2008-06-01 |archive-date=2008-07-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080721024331/http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/wildlife/mammals/thylacin.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> They once lived across [[Australia]] and [[New Guinea]]. There are paintings of the animals in the north of [[Western Australia]], and in the [[Northern Territory]].<ref>{{cite web | last = | first = | title = Indigenous Peoples and the Thylacine | work = Australia's Thylacine | publisher = Australian Museum Online | date = 2002 | url = http://www.amonline.net.au/thylacine/06.htm