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 Last Captive Thylacine Dies in Hobart Zoo (1936)The thylacine, known also as the Tasmanian wolf and Tasmanian tiger, was a carnivorous marsupial once found on the Australian mainland, New Guinea, and Tasmania. Often cited as an example of convergent evolution, it was superficially similar to a wolf or dog, though it evolved entirely independently of these animals. It was hunted to probable extinction in the 1930s, and the last captive thylacine died in the Hobart Zoo in 1936. How many thylacine sightings have been reported since then? More...
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It looks exactly like a tiger-wolf hybrid, and yet it's a marsupial.
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That's nothing DREW. There used to be marsupials in this part of the world that resembled lions too!
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TYSON wrote:That's nothing DREW. There used to be marsupials in this part of the world that resembled lions too! I think it's safe to say that your marsupials are far more exotic than North America's. The only one I can think of is the opossum.
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Drew wrote:TYSON wrote:That's nothing DREW. There used to be marsupials in this part of the world that resembled lions too! I think it's safe to say that your marsupials are far more exotic than North America's. The only one I can think of is the opossum. Way back when our continents hadn't drifted so far, S. America and Australia were connected and many marsupials existed in S. America. Not many survived since then and the only one surviving in the north is the opossum. This reminds me of the baby mammoth discovered in Russia back in '07. Any updates on the cloning attempts?
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Well Ice Age was pretty good. 
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