thylacine

(plural: ‘thylacines‘; for the right pronunciation of this word, please click here)

This animal, also called ‘Tasmanian tiger’, Tasmanian wolf’, ‘Tassis’, ‘tazzy’, became extinct (= completely died out; no living animal is found now) in 1936.

For an interesting article about thylacine, please click here. For a blog post about a piece of pelt (skin of an animal) that might be the skin of a thylacine or some other animal, please click here. For a local news report, with video clips, in which thylacine is discussed, please click here.